Rumors are that President Obama has secretly authorized the CIA to arms rebels in Libya. Do the successive US administrations suffer of collective Alzheimer disease? Certainly President Obama is a copy cat of his predecessors when it comes to their foreign policy. It seems like the US administration never learns from mistakes of the past. I am not sure if it is a curse or just karma.

Rumor or not, it appears more true than false because that is the way the US acts in the dark. The US administration has forgotten that they created the Ossama Bin Laden of today. Ossama was an ex-CIA agent armed as Mujahideens to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. What are the guarantees that the rebels who are Muslims won’t turn against the US in the future? Libya used to be a state sponsoring terrorism. It cannot change its habits overnight.

I have never seen a country such as the US where state secrets, decisions, and war strategy are discussed live on CNN. The enemies of the US watch CNN as well to know what the Americans are thinking. Peter Burgen, a CNN analyst on terrorism, got a response from cleric Anwar-al-Awlaki, free publicity for him. Facebook is wide open to US enemies to organize. Only a fool does not learn from past mistakes. As the Akans of Ghana say, “By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed.”