Ron asked which US president ru1ed for 40 years. I'd say J Edgar Hoover, except that he called the shots for 50 (yes, fifty) years - presiding over corruption on a scale that many a third-world country would envy.

I see Teribus is as snide as ever, unmasking a fellow poster from the safe haven of his own pseudonym. I wonder if Teribus and his ilk (Bobad etc) could say exactly what policy considerations lead them to favour the eastern factions over the western factions in Libya's civil war? (They don't need to explain why it is ok to attack Libya but not Syria, because it's obvious: Syria has an army.)