Saturday, July 30, 2011

Quite a Loophole

Not that I'm crying for Khaddafi. He deserves whatever bad fate we can engineer for him.

But what can't we bomb under this reasoning?

NATO warplanes bombed three Libyan state TV satellite transmitters in Tripoli overnight, targeting facilities that have been used to incite violence and threaten civilians, the military alliance said Saturday.

The mental gymnastics we display to wage war without officially waging war is amazing. Couldn't we bomb libraries because pro-Khaddafi books in them are used to incite violence and threaten civilians?

Or wouldn't mosques be a target set for the same reason?

Don't loyalist hospitals treat wounded loyalist troops whose recovery would threaten civilians?

Wouldn't kitten adoption centers be targets because loyalist mercenaries need to kick back, pet their purring kitties, and relax after a long day of violence and threatening civilians?

I mean, once you accept that dangerous Khaddafi talk radio is a threat to civilians (Fox News Channel should be careful, given the administration's views on them, eh?), the sky's the limit on legitimate targets, isn't it?

Yeah. This is much better than waging war after a declaration of war by our Congress. Hey, the war protection of civilians is being waged under the standards of the sainted international community, so how could it be bad?