Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Thursday, April 7, 2011

US General Agrees Libyan War Reaching Stalemate

By Steve Hynd


Who could have predicted this? (Ummm...)



General Carter Ham, head of U.S. Africa command, told a Senate hearing Washington should not provide arms to the rebels without a better idea of who they were.


Asked if there was an emerging stalemate, he replied: "I would agree with that at present, on the ground."



The AP report adds:



The U.S. may consider sending troops into Libya with a possible international ground force that could aid the rebels, according to the general who led the military mission until NATO took over.


But Army Gen. Carter Ham also told lawmakers Thursday that added American participation would not be ideal, and ground troops could erode the international coalition and make it more difficult to get Arab support for operations in Libya.



Gee, you thunk?! Libya is the very definition of a mission creeping towards a quagmire. Well done, Shrillary and the rest of the neolib interventionists!


P.S. If you're wondering why the neolibs aren't so shrill about Bahrain, well there are $60 billion reasons.



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  1. Dave SchulerApril 7, 2011 at 8:09 AM

    Unlike most of my poorly informed countrymen, I vote for foreign policy when I vote for president. If I had wanted John McCain for president, I would have voted for John McCain for president. As it is most of President Obama's major foreign policy decisions would have been the same as President McCain's. We've withdrawn from Iraq on the schedule negotiated by the Bush Administration and not a second faster; the president has (IMO foolishly) doubled down on military engagement in Afghanistan; and now there's the predictable stalemate in Libya.
    The only thing that will secure Obama's second term is if the Republicans run a manifest idiot. In other words he's in pretty fair shape.

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  2. Steve HyndApril 7, 2011 at 10:08 AM

    Yep, Obama's definitely delegated his FP to Hillary and her faction.
    I do think, though, that the GOP has the same problem the Dems had in 2004 and I think they'll go for the same solution: put up a "grey man" candidate who doesn't excite any part of the base against him too much but also doesn't excite the electorate to vote for him.
    Regards, Steve

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