Brendan Calling

Note to the Republicans: STFU

I think I’ve made my feelings on the Libyan adventure quite clear, but if there’s one group of people I don’t need to hear from it’s the Republicans:

ome Republicans suggested that Mr. Obama had waited too long to protect the rebels against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, had been too reluctant to employ American power and had not clearly explained the objectives of the action. Their comments maintained a pattern of attacking Mr. Obama as a weak leader at home and abroad.

“I don’t know what finally got the president to act, but I’m very worried that we’re taking the back seat rather than a leadership role,” Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said on “Fox News Sunday.”
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The prospective 2012 Republican presidential contenders, who are quick to dispense criticism of Mr. Obama on nearly every topic, were quiet on Sunday about Libya. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was the only prospective candidate to issue a statement, criticizing the military action as “opportunistic amateurism without planning.”

“What is the Obama standard?” Mr. Gingrich said. “What is success? What are we prepared to do to achieve that success?”

here’s my rule of thumb: when your party is responsible for goading your country into a disastrous, pointless, unwinnable war-based-on-lies in the Middle East, one which has damaged our economy, killed thousands of American troops and hundreds of thousand of innocent civilians, engendered even more hatred of the US, and fundamentally weakened us as a global power, YOU DON’T GET TO CRITICIZE. YOU DON’T GET TO CRITICIZE, BECAUSE YOU HAVE ALREADY PROVEN THAT YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT.