I think it should be ours, especially based on what they’re sending up as competition.

Ray: I’ll help you out by responding. I’m not Adam, but since you seem to want or need someone to talk to:

Ron Paul is an interesting character, but he isn’t even running, is he? Like Palin, making some noise, but is that it?

Secondly, Libya is a NATO operation, not entirely U.S.A.

Third, sounds like Obama is thinking more along the lines of pulling out of the Libya (that’s actually the way it’s spelled) air strikes than getting in deeper. So why would he go for approval at this point?

My gut feeling: Get rid of Ghaddafi like we got rid of bin Laden now that we’re in there. Don’t start or take on something and then back out. You have no idea how difficult it is for me to say that because I’m usually a dove.

I feel much the same about Afghanistan. I’m torn. What happens to that region if we pull out. What happens if we stay in it to win it?

Iraq was a Bush lie.

Ron Paul was one of the first Republicans to actually enter the race, so there’s that. We need a guy like him who will work to actually cut spending, unlike the last several presidents. Seeing him take on the Federal Reserve would be fun too. It would also be nice to see our troops come home and secure our own borders.

Libya is a conflict that has nothing to do with us. We were told it would be days, not weeks, now it’s months. The president is outside of his authority and needs to seek congressional approval (which he likely won’t get).

Tired of the blame Bush attitude on Iraq, he was wrong, but so was Congress. Blame every one of them who had access to the intel and supported the war. Ghaddafi poses no threat to us, neither did Hussein, but at least the intel (faulty or not) supported the “threat”. There is no intel to even suggest that Ghaddafi is a threat, in fact there is intel showing that the rebels in Lybia are in fact al qaeda members. Go Washington! Fight them in Iraq and Afghanistan, join up with them in Libya. Good plan!

As far as wanting or needing someone to talk to, I just realized that I haven’t visited this blog in quite a while and wanted to see what’s going on. Apparently not much at all.

It bothers me that people are willing to excuse Congress on Iraq. If so many feel like our elected Congressional Reps are too stupid to think on their own and can only do what the President tells them to do, then why bother with them? Let’s give the President full control. The very idea that so many officials in Washington are too stupid to think on their own is alarming.

Ron Paul, Huntsman, Bachmann, Romney, Herman Cain, Pawlenty, Santorum, Gary Johnson, and Newt Gingrich are all in. Rumors are that Palin and Perry will jump in, I personally hope not. Rick Perry is scary and he’s selling out our country. I like Palin, just not for president.

Let’s not forget that Obama jumped into Libya, he can’t even blame Bush for this one. Yeah, it’s NATO, but Obama still needs to seek Congressional approval. NATO approval does not trump Congressional approval no matter what our world government minded President wants to think.

Your question says it all, “where does that leave the western world and democracy in the Middle East?”. The western world is not in the Middle East, it’s in the West. Democracy cannot be imposed. Unless our national security is actually threatened, we have no business over there. When real threats exist we should eliminate them, not spend years and billions of dollars building towns and schools and roads while ours fall apart and our debt piles up. Bring the troops home, cut the spending, secure our borders, drill our own oil, get back to the Constitution, and mind our own business and we’ll be better off!

Gin, Actually, after thinking about it, I should admit that it is possible that the ?á meaning carrying over from other Chinese words is all in my head. The narrower Chinese focus could also easily come from a more literal interpretation of the word “cool” that the current American usage. The oÚ?Í example is a good one. (I’ve also heard o¦?Í.) It’s impossible to prove conclusively one way or the other, though. You can’t ask people what’s going on in the subconscious when they use a word. And a non-native speaker’s opinion can never be the voice of authority on issues of “feeling” regarding a Chinese character. At the risk of overkill, I just wanted to add that I asked my Chinese co-workers to tell me what ?á meant to them, in Chinese. The first thing they said was “¸úÓcÓiO»Nu.” I insisted that they explain, though, and the essence of their definition was Aä. They said you could not describe a Nô1âÄ?oc as ?á. That differs a lot from English, because in English someone’s perceived “coolness” is based on the speaker’s own standards of what is cool, and not at all on society’s standards (although admittedly, the two influece each other in both cases).

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