Violence Begets Violence

Last month, as the FBI was closing in on his affair with Paula Broadwell and the political fight over Benghazi was heating up, David Petraeus made an undisclosed trip to Tripoli, Libya. The purpose of the trip, according to congressional and U.S. officials, was to examine what remained of the CIA's presence in the country after the United States abandoned the agency's base and nearby U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi after the Sept. 11 assassination of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.

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With the coming "unilateral" coalition of allied nations working together to help restore security and order to Libya, I am left thinking on the meaning and implications of words. Unilateral to me signifies unity, with nations coming together to exercise collectivist violence in order to show a violent despot that other violent despots will not tolerate violence. It carries the same weight at "bipartisan," which tells the peasants that the divided ruling class is coming together to make life more miserable for them.