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Published September 8, 2011-Updated December 28,
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“The Changing Tide in Libya”
by Nathan’ette Burdine-Follow
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It’s 3PM in the afternoon and Sam,
Cricket, Dot, Hazel Mae, and Nate are sitting on the covered porch with the
ceiling fans going.
Hazel Mae (to Nate).-I
told you to get up early this morning when it was 65 degrees out there and water
that grass. All you had to do was
turn on that sprinkle.
Nate-Who are you talking to?
Hazel
Mae-I’m talking to you. That sun
has turned that grass red because you didn’t put any water on it this morning.
Nate-That sprinkler is on a timer. It came on at six o’clock this morning.
Hazel Mae-So why does that grass look that
way?
Nate-That grass is alright.
I swear woman. I think you
woke up this morning with fussing on your mind.
Hazel Mae-Honey chile, I don’t bother
myself telling people like you the obvious because you know everything. I don’t say anything to people about stuff that they
already know about. I go on my way
and I just wave my hands at them when they start all that foolishness.
Nate-What are you fussing about now?
Hazel Mae-Nothing but the sun.
Nate-At least this isn’t Africa. You see, that’s why I don’t understand how those people
can do all of that fighting over there. All
of that heat will make a person run to the nearest watering hole.
Sam-Is that why you turned on that water?
Nate-Man, don’t come here with that ole
bull. I turned that water on
earlier this morning.
Dot-Why is that smoke coming from the road?
Nate-This is Florida, high humidity.
Hazel Mae-Hm-mm.
Nate-What?!
Hazel Mae-Nothing.
I was just thinking about how hot Africa is.
Sam-Speaking of Africa, it seemed as if
Gadhafi was going to give up his power there.
The African Union stepped in and tried talking to the rebels, but that
didn’t work out right. The rebels
want Gadhafi gone, but Gadhafi doesn’t want to be gone.
Cricket-I read somewhere that Zuma said that Gadhafi needs to go.
He’s done too much wrong to stay.
Then I hear tell Hillary said that the U.S. will recognize the rebels,
but Zuma said that he wasn’t recognizing anybody that wasn’t Gadhafi.
I don’t think they know what they want to do.
Hazel Mae-That’s how everybody feels, but
that’s not up to us to decide.
Sam-I believe he needs to go, but the people
in his country need to kick him out. Change
from any other place that’s not from within isn’t going to work.
The longer this goes on, the more Britain, France, and the U.S. are going
to look like colonials pouncing on the helpless “Other.”
The “Other” being Gadhafi. The
focus is already quickly changing from the Libyan people to Gadhafi.
Hazel Mae-They’re giving him what he
wants. You know Reagan dropped
those bombs on Gadhafi’s house back in ’88 and killed his family, after
Gadhafi killed those people on that PAN AM flight.
They bombed a relative’s house back in April or May, and killed some of
his relatives but not him. You
know, that’s a perfect example of how you end up wasting more money by paying
somebody to do something you can do yourself.
Nate-The president can’t just go in and kill
Gadhafi.
Hazel Mae-Why not?
That’s what he and Reagan tried to do and both weren’t successful.
Nate-That wasn’t just Reagan. Gadhafi killed people from the U.S., Scotland, to Jamaica.
Everybody wanted him dead and everybody wants him dead.
They’re all in it together. Just
like it’s not just Obama, it’s David Cameron and Nickolas Sarkozy too. It’s called NATO and not NOTUS.
It’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization and not Non-Other Than the U.S.
So the blame can be spread all
around.
Hazel Mae-You missing my point, honey.
Nate-What is your point, Hazel Mae?
Hazel Mae-My point is that when you have a
problem with somebody, then you handle it yourself and don’t pay somebody else
to handle it for you. Especially
when they haven’t gotten the results you wanted.
Now you see, we weren’t in this mess with Gadhafi.
Our attention was on Egypt moving on with out Mubarak and on that hot
mess in Syria with Assad there. Then
here comes those British and French folks bothering us with that Gadhafi mess.
Now you see what’s going on in Israel.
Those people were attack along the Israel and Egyptian border.
Netanyahu believes Egypt had something to do with the attack.
How can you blame him when the Egyptians started bad mouthing the
Israelis. Now
this is my point honey, we got rid of an ally when we got rid of Mubarak and now
that pot of mess is boiling over. And now that Gadhafi may be gone, those
new Libyans may want to do the same thing as the new Egyptians, keep that pot
boiling over. And what that means for us is more money spent over there
trying to keep down all that mess. Obama knows this.
That’s why he told those folks we weren’t sending in any ground
troops.
Cricket-…but we sent NATO.
Hazel Mae-We, Canada, Mexico, Britain, and
France are all a part of NATO. Sending
NATO is not sending the U.S. military. What
you say, “It’s called NATO and not NOTUS.”
Cricket-That’s what Nate said. But you see, this is the problem with Obama.
He wants to do stuff without doing stuff.
You are a part of NATO, then you go with NATO.
You are sending us through NATO. You
can’t go and fight a war without any guns and bullets.
That’s what he was trying to say,
“I’m not sending any ground troops so we’re not going to war.” Like somebody can’t put a bullet in your ass from the air.
Man, ain’t nobody studying all of that.
Whenever you send your military somewhere, they are going to go with
guns, bombs, and bullets and things. Then
Congress was asking about that War Powers Act.
Obama stood up there telling those people at a press conference that he
wasn’t on the Supreme Court, and although he’s a constitutional lawyer,
he’s not going to determine if what he did was constitutional or not.
I said, “What?” That’s
like a person who’s a lawyer and a doctor and he’s in the courtroom when
somebody starts choking, but he says that he can’t help the person out because
his job is as a lawyer right now and not a doctor.
What kind of mess? You use
what you have. You don’t put your
talent through a stringer and treat it like some macaroni noodles and say, “Well, I’ll use this part now and let the other just go
down the drain.” You are a
constitutional lawyer and the president. You
want to use all of your constitutional law knowledge and community organizing
skills during election time, but put it all on freeze when you get the job.
What’s the point of having your ass there if you aren’t going to use
all that you got?
Hazel Mae (staring at Cricket).-Hmmm-mm.
Dot-I think the president is right in that
it isn’t he’s job to interpret the constitution.
It’s he’s job to protect the country, something that is clearly
stated within the Articles of Confederation under Article II.
He’s the Commander and Chief of the military and it’s his job to
protect the nation. There are
things we don’t know which he most likely has knowledge about.
They aren’t going to tell us every detail about the security risk a
country like Libya may pose because that will be a security risk.
Hazel Mae-Well that is true, you don’t
want your enemy knowing everything you know about them.
That will just give them a head start up on you.
Cricket-Wait a minute now.
When he took that oath, word for word, he said,
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the
office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability,
preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
Now that’s from Article II, Section I, Number 7.
That’s where it’s from. How
are you going to defend something when you don’t know what you’re defending. Tell me that. That’s
like having a fool in the military over there in one of those wars trying to
shoot a gun and he doesn’t know how to shoot it.
How are you going to defend something and you don’t know how to defend
it? The main part of defending
something is knowing and understanding what you’re defending.
This is his problem. He’s
a constitutional lawyer but he doesn’t know the constitution.
“My job ain’t to interpret the constitution.”
That ain’t what that oath say. Yo’
job is to defend the constitution. Now
how in the hell are you gonna defend the constitution when you can’t interpret
the constitution well enough to know what you’re defending?
Dot-Although what he said could be
interpreted the way you interpreted it Cricket, I think he’s right in his
intentions and he’s right about the law.
When you look at past presidents, you will find that the majority of them
have decided to go to at least one war without Congress’ vote.
War is nothing but a battle between two opposing forces.
Clinton tried killing Osama bin Laden after the bombing at the U.S.
Embassy in South Africa. Reagan sent the military in to help the Nicaraguan government
during the civilian uprisings. And
this Congress can’t say too much about coming to them in order to get the go
ahead to go to war. This Congress
has some of the same members who gave Bush the ok to go into Iraq, with Barbara
Lee being the lone no vote. According
to Senator John Kerry, Congress was informed about what was going on in Libya
and informed about the president’s decision.
By the way, some of those same people, like John McCain, who were
criticizing him, were amongst the ones talking about how he needed to do more.
And now that we’re in this war that could easily go Gadhfi’s way,
they want him to explain why he did what they wanted him to do anyway.
Hazel Mae- I tell you something right now,
that isn’t going to work. Gadhafi’s
isn’t right in the head and those types of people always make it out. Hillary, Barack, Nicholas, and David (who’s in that mess
with Rupert Murdoch) will all have to eat crow.
And speaking of Rupert Murdoch and David Cameron, I can tell you what
Gahdafi is saying right now, “Don’t mess with God’s anointed unless you
want to drink hell’s raging fire.” That’s
what he’s saying. You know
Gahdafi isn’t right in his head. (to
Sam.)-I know what you’re thinking but you look a here, I can call all of
them by their first name. I’m old
enough to be their mama, as long as I’ve been living.
Nate-Praise God…
Cricket-…and pass the White Lighting.
Update
Cricket (watching CNN).-Oh, Gahdafi
got shot in his ass.
Nate-He’s dead?
Cricket-He’s dead.
(to Hazel Mae.)-Gahdafi made it out, huh?
Hazel Mae-He made it out of his body and
straight into hell.
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