Given that Obama's father was really a secularist, contra both right-wing wingnuts and the claim of Cole that he was a Muslim, I don't think Obama had any special ax-grinding interest in nailing bin Laden.
Hah! Clinton's already saying UN Res. 1973 allows the US to avoid the previous US-voted arms embargo.
Seems like the UN fig leaf is a pretty selective one, Juan, at least for her.
As for "democritization," our own government admits it doesn't even know that much about the composition of the rebels, despite your own poo-pooing of a previous AP story about them.
Will you answer Glenn, or Salon's Justin Leonard, on that one? Where do you stand on violating the arms embargo?
Given that Obama's father was really a secularist, contra both right-wing wingnuts and the claim of Cole that he was a Muslim, I don't think Obama had any special ax-grinding interest in nailing bin Laden.
Hah! Clinton's already saying UN Res. 1973 allows the US to avoid the previous US-voted arms embargo.
Seems like the UN fig leaf is a pretty selective one, Juan, at least for her.
As for "democritization," our own government admits it doesn't even know that much about the composition of the rebels, despite your own poo-pooing of a previous AP story about them.
Will you answer Glenn, or Salon's Justin Leonard, on that one? Where do you stand on violating the arms embargo?
@Giraffe: Preznit Kumbaya threatened to cut off funding for the PA if it had another election and replaced Abbas: http://socraticgadfly.blogspot.com/2011/01/team-obama-turns-financial-screws-on.html
@Juan: To me, a big question is, "cui bono" on the leak? Someone like Livni, wanting to "look tough"? A PA underling, out of either principle or political motives? Your thoughts? Here's mine: http://socraticgadfly.blogspot.com/2011/01/who-benefits-from-al-jazeera-bomb.html