A Splendid Little War
5th March 2011
Jerry Pournelle has a great idea:
I wonder what would happen if the US demanded of Gaddafi that he turn over Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi for trial in the US? Al-Megrahi was released from imprisonment in Scotland on compassi0nate grounds because he was supposedly dying of prostate cancer, and should be allowed to go home and die. That was some time ago, and he has miraculously recovered his health. President Obama keeps looking for terrorists to try in the regular US courts: Megrahi would seem to be a good candidate. Failure to turn him over to us for trial would be as good a casus belli as any, better than we had against Saddam Hussein after 9/11.
Teddy Roosevelt would definitely do it.
Reagan might do it. Bush might do it. Hell, even Hillary might do it.
But Obama, alas, would never do it.
March 5th, 2011 at 11:04
Hillary has bigger balls than Barry, but then, we knew that already.
March 6th, 2011 at 21:47
And she has Bill’s in a jar, just in case.