Professor Cole, you have been a source of good sense over the Libyan matter. But did you not write that by our adherence to the UN the US was obligated to intervene when the UNGA voted for intervention? A request to Congress to support the intervention would have been redundant. Correct or not?
Professor Cole has asked good and necessary questions. I would add one other: when will a subset of American citizens take to the streets to demand a reckoning with the awful leadership of the country? Voting won't do it.
What will move the conscious people of the USA to take serious the situation you excellently outline? At 78 I feel too old to take to the streets and immolation is not an option. What has anesthetized the ethical and moral sense of this nation. I can only weep.
She was not pardoned; he sentence was commuted. There is a big difference, See the Intercept report on this especially the comments,
Hear hear!!!!! Grumpy
Excellently stated. You highlight the doublespeak which has been the hallmark of Obama's presidency.
Israel is an illegal occupier of Palestinian land-all of premandate Palestine-.
It is the aggressor.
It is backed by the USA which has its own history of displacing indigenous peoples for its own manifest destiny ends.
Israel should be lucky to get away with keeping what it had pre-1967. All the rest is garbage
Professor Cole, you have been a source of good sense over the Libyan matter. But did you not write that by our adherence to the UN the US was obligated to intervene when the UNGA voted for intervention? A request to Congress to support the intervention would have been redundant. Correct or not?
suppressive= suppression
The removal of Qaddafi is paramount to the emergence of representative government all along the North African north. See
http://www.zcommunications.org/egypts-revolution-and-israel-bad-for-the-jews-by-ilan-pappe to understand how important these upheavals are to changing the USA/Israel suppressive of the Arab people.
Professor Cole has asked good and necessary questions. I would add one other: when will a subset of American citizens take to the streets to demand a reckoning with the awful leadership of the country? Voting won't do it.
Dear Professor Cole,
What will move the conscious people of the USA to take serious the situation you excellently outline? At 78 I feel too old to take to the streets and immolation is not an option. What has anesthetized the ethical and moral sense of this nation. I can only weep.