Madame Doddering Leftist and prayers for...

RantWoman unquestionably celebrates and concurs with the sentiments in these blog posts about Libya:

http://bloggerbyconvincement.blogspot.com/2011/03/libya-and-peace-testimony.html



http://johanpdx.blogspot.com/2011/04/dilemmas.html




Readers who are feeling humor-impaired or overwrought over the thought of yet ANOTHER US military intervention in the Middle East are excused from further reading unless led. See RantWoman has been doing her Quakerism for Dummies homework and thinking about that of God within Moamar Ghadafi. RantWoman has come up with two elements which make her smile--in spite of the fact that a path of redemption from the zone of "Odious Dictator" is really, really not obvious to RantWoman.

First, the beloved Odious Dictator has NOT managed to promote himself from Colonel to General. What gives? Has the beloved Odious Dictator been overcome with modesty? Has RantWoman missed some critical linguistic or political nuance to account for this oddity?

Second, based on a recent report RantWoman heard on NPR, the beloved Odious Dictator has reached new heights of brilliance in his management of the international press corps. Peace and Light be upon these herds and herds of brave and intrepid souls risking life and limb in a war zone and puttting up with the privations of international hotels in order to get as close as possible to The News. RantWoman thinks the good colonel's "keep 'em completely disoriented" practices of scheduling tours to cities under fire at 3 am is just brilliant appropriation of, say, psychological warfare methods developed by the US government.

RantWoman expects the Odious Dictator can probably devise disorienting tactics on his own, but RantWoman was especially touched by the tour of what NPR reporter Lourdes garcia Navarro called "doddering leftists from France." One Anglophone member of that group greatly amused RantWoman by articulating the case against military action in terms of "impinging on Libya's sovereignty." Really? Ya think?

RantWoman admits that it probably does not hurt at least to pray, to pray for spiritual transformation for the Odious Dictator, for cessation of attacks against unarmed civilians, for political coherence among the opposition without need for arms. Praying: the least RantWoman can do!