[Peace-discuss] Corruptio optimi pessima

[C. G. Estabrook]

http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair07272011.html

"...The bombing of Libya had begun with a hail of cruise missile attacks and air 
strikes. It was something of an impromptu intervention, orchestrated largely by 
Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice and the diva of vengeance Samantha Powers, always 
hot for a saturation bombing in the name of human rights...

"...as Obama’s wars spread from Afghanistan and Iraq to Pakistan and Yemen, 
Somalia and Libya, outside of the redoubtable Catholic Workers and Quakers and a 
few Code Pinkers--the last flickering moral lights in the nation--even those 
empty yawps of protest dissipated into whispered lamentations, hushed murmurs of 
disillusionment. Could it be that the American Left had gone extinct as any kind 
of potent political force and it took the election of Barack Obama to prove it?"