Reason Writers on Bloggingheads: Matt Welch Talks Obama, Libya, and More With Robert Wright

This afternoon, Reason Editor in Chief Matt Welch squared off with Bloggingheads.tv impresario Robert Wright to talk about the Obama Doctrine, mission creep in Libya, lowering/raising the bar for military intervention, disaster resilience in Japan, Elizabeth Taylor, and other pressing concerns of the day. Click the link to see topics broken down into bite-sized chunks, and/or to view/participate in comments.

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[watch9527]

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[Pat D King]

I just read that Radley Balko is going to the Huff. Post, that is a perfect fit for RB and his writing will be valued there. He will join an all-star line-up of objective writers such as Alec Balwin and his long time mentor Andrew Sullivan.

[Rolex Imitations]

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[watchesdian]

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[Joshua Corning]

Soooo....it is ok for Obama to start a war if he has UN security council authorization but he doesn't need congress's authorization?

WTF?!?!

[rather]

He doesn't

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[rather]

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[joshua corning]

So what the fuck are you Rather?

A neocon pro war dude

A libertarian pro war dude

A left wing pro war dude

or

A left wing pro wars that democrats start but anti wars that republicans start dude.

I see above that someone called you team blue.

I suppose i could figure it out by reading your blog...but every time i get more then a sentence or two into it my eyes glaze over.

[rather]

weird my reply is gone

[Achtung Baby]

Robert Wright has a hard-on for "security council authorization."

Because I don't follow the news very well, I need a little help confirming a story a heard on Lawrence O'Donnell tonight. In it, LOD said that Senators (including Rand Paul) had voted in support of a Senate resolution demanding that the UN Security Council defend the people of Libya. It supposedly happened in early March. Is this true?

[johnl]

True. http://voices.washingtonpost.c.....ution.html

[Sudden]

Not entirely true. As for "demanding the UN defend the citizens of Libya" it only goes so far as to state that it supports the UN should it at some point (bearing in mind this was passed 3/1, a full three weeks before the NFZ was in effect) deem a NFZ necessary, the Senate.

What it does not say/authorize/support is the use of US troops/money/weaponry to provide said NFZ. That is one that has never been submitted to Congress, as it theoretically should.

[sloopyinca]

Matt needs to go on there and discuss how to get a little color to his skin. He looks pasty.

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Doctrine, mission creep in Libya, lowering/raising the bar for military intervention

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