re: "Smart Diplomacy (By Other Means): Arab League "Ally" Criticizes Attacks In Libya"

Drew M. at Ace of Spades HQ watches how things fall apart, the center does not hold.

Money quote(s):

"We've heard how important Arab League support for the operation in Libya was and is. Supposedly its support was pivotal in getting the west moving and its participation would insulate us from charges of "imperialism" and "killing more Muslims"."

It's a nice fantasy; how's that working out for us?

"Apparently, the Arab League has a "Reset" button of its own."

They also, like the PLO and now various "Palestianian Authority" figures, have a tendency to say one thing in English and quite another for their Arabic language audiences.

"According to Obama and Clinton we're not leading this thing. That of course is absolute crap and the world can see it."

No really, NATO is in charge now. And the U.S. has as much to do with NATO's goings-on as it does with the U.N. Security Council's.

re: "About that "reset" button"

Jason at COUNTERCOLUMN: The Adjunct of Evil (""I, for one, welcome our new libtard overlords!"") is understanding of mistakes, but only up to a point.

Money quote(s):

"I can understand missing the translation. Actually, it happens all the time, though it would be unusual at this level. But not realizing that, gee, I've noticed over the years that Russians seem to use some sort of crazy backwards alphabet, but still taking the idea, running with it, and getting all the way up to the Secretary of State without any adult supervision looking at the damn thing even once on the way up the flagpole takes incompetence to a whole new level of stupidity."

&

"Why in God's name does the Secretary of State still have a "small political team" of commissar loyalists? She's the farging Secretary of State, not the President. She's not a politician. She's a diplomat. Apparently, she's congenitally incapable of telling the difference. And why is she allowing her small, political team of operatives to stick their juvenile, incompetent noses in protocol functions, where they have zero expertise? Why isn't she putting them on a leash and limiting their functions (to, say, making coffee at Foggy Bottom)?"