Forget Conspiracy Theories

It was equally clear from the start that this Orwellian-named "kinetic humanitarian action" was, in fact, a "war" in every sense, including the Constitutional sense, but that's especially undeniable now.  While the President, in his after-the-fact speech justifying the war, pledged that "broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake," it is now clear that is exactly what is happening.  "Regime change" quickly became the explicit goal. NATO has repeatedly sought to kill Gadaffi with bombs; one attack killed his youngest son and three grandchildren and almost killed his whole family including his wife, forcing them to flee to Tunisia.  If sending your armed forces and its AC-130s and drones to another country to attack that country's military and kill its leader isn't a "war," then nothing is.

It's extraordinary how rapidly and brazenly the initial claims about the war were discarded.  The notion that we were simply going to establish a no-fly zone to protect civilians in Benghazi behind the leadership of the Arab League -- remember all that?  -- is a faded, laughable memory.  Former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, originally supportive of the mission in Libya, explained the obvious about NATO in an interview this week:  "they've crossed a line and are now part of the civil war and fighting on one side of the civil war."  One can now say many things about this war; that it is "time-limited, well defined and discrete" is most assuredly not among them.

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People will spend countless amounts of time "researching" (translation watching Youtube videos) conspiracy theories.  They will tell you what they think they know, what they think they can prove, and what they think it means.  In the best case scenario, if everything they claim to be true is true, there's nothing that can be done about it, and I'm not so sure it would be as bad as they make it sound.  In the worst case, well you've just spent a bunch of time on a bunch of nothing.  Jay Z is down with the Illuminati?  OMG!!! Wait... So what?   George Washington was a Mason?  OMG!!! Wait... So what?  Look at all the super secret symbols on the dollar!!! OMG!!! Wait... it's not much of a secret if it's on the dollar now is it? 

For all of the time and energy people will spend "researching" conspiracy theories, and trying to convince everyone they know to believe them too, people will pay little to no attention, to things actually occurring.  Things that don't require tremendous leaps of faith and contortions of logic to confirm.  The war in Libya is illegal.  Obama is directly contradicting the position he took on illegal wars.  Congress is abdicating it's responsibility to provide checks and balances on the President. 

It doesn't require me to believe in some secret group with some secret agenda to confirm the above statements of fact.  They are true.  Period.  You could write your Congressman and Senators, get your friends and neighbors to do the same, and actually influence this event.  But you won't.  Too busy stocking up on bottled water for when "they" take over the world, "they" already run last time I checked.