Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

August 24, 2011

For the third time in less than a decade, the United States military has been used to inflict a Sharia-compliant constitution on a foreign country. The proposed draft constitution for post-Qadaffi Libya specifies that ?Islam is the Religion of the State, and the principal source of legislation is Islamic Jurisprudence? ? a provision nearly identical to the constitutions imposed on Afghanistan and Iraq by U.S.-created occupation governments under George W. Bush.

The rebels whom the U.S. and NATO would install as Libya?s new government entered Tripoli triumphantly chanting Islamic victory slogans. Many of them had obtained valuable combat experience by fighting American troops stationed in Iraq.

Washington?s involvement in the Libyan war is entirely illegal. Mr. Obama didn?t receive a congressional declaration of war, or even a statement of congressional approval; in fact, he didn?t even consult with Congress before committing the U.S. military to the conflict. The administration went so far as to deny that airstrikes and missile attacks on Libyan targets constituted ?hostilities.?

One ironic benefit of our economic collapse is this: It may finally put an end to demented imperial ventures of this kind.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.