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2011-03-01 Africa North
West ready to use force against Col Gaddafi
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Posted by Steve White 2011-03-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ]  Top

#1 It is not the only country that is in turmolt. At this point, it is making sure American Citizens are safe in the region as well as that of NATO. Prefer as usual a JDAM to watching our troops get shot at again or watch them have to watch people get wasted outside the no-fly zone. Presence is expensive, but it sure beats a Ferry.
Posted by newc 2011-03-01 00:48||   2011-03-01 00:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Mr Cameron said: "If Col Gaddafi uses military force against his own people, the world cannot stand by.

And in other news of days gone by: At Phnom Penh, two million inhabitants were evacuated on foot into the countryside at gunpoint. As many as 20000 died along ... Ex-soldiers were killed along with their wives and children .... but of course those poor buggers owned no oil fields.
Posted by Besoeker 2011-03-01 03:06||   2011-03-01 03:06|| Front Page Top

#3 
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Posted by  Dribble2716 2011-03-01 06:02||   2011-03-01 06:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Be careful of interfering in someone's civil war least others be encouraged by precedent to interfere in your future civil war.
Posted by Procopius2k 2011-03-01 09:02||   2011-03-01 09:02|| Front Page Top

#5 The leaders in the "West" have all tolerated totalitarian regimes in the middle east because we are dependent upon them for oil.

If all of us have reliable oil reserves of our own, we could have taken tougher stances with all of these tin hat dictators. We ignored them for a variety of reasons, mostly because it was inconvenient to deal with them in a substantial way.
Secondly, our own internal silliness and self serving politics allowed the nastiness of radical islam to become more pervasive in the region. If we had bombed Iran into the stone age at the first inkling of a nuclear program we would have stopped a lot of this crap.
We've been too weak and too self serving with our politics and our foreign policy for too long. The lefties and the prima donnas in the State Department for too long have taken a soft conciliatory tone with these nuts.
I say we drill for oil, if not for production, then for negotiating clout. I say we actively work in the shadows to curtail radical islam and I say we actively work in the light to criticize and condemn these potentates and oddballs that rule the middle east.
Posted by Bill Clinton 2011-03-01 10:01||   2011-03-01 10:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Be careful of interfering in someone's civil war least others be encouraged by precedent to interfere in your future civil war.

They'll do it if they want to no matter what we do or don't do.
Posted by gorb 2011-03-01 10:03||   2011-03-01 10:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Not worth a single service man's life.
Posted by Hellfish 2011-03-01 12:04||   2011-03-01 12:04|| Front Page Top

#8 What's wrong with these people (and the People who elected them)?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-03-01 12:35||   2011-03-01 12:35|| Front Page Top

#9 The SAS has been busy 'rescuing British nationals' in the desert lately.

They werent just British Steve , but American , French , German and various other nationalities

In total , 95 Britons and 270 foreign nationals were airlifted from areas around Libya on Saturday and Sunday

The small arms fire that hit the last c-130 was by rebels and theyve apologized , mistaking the plane for Gaddafi goon squad .
Posted by Oscar 2011-03-01 13:28||   2011-03-01 13:28|| Front Page Top

#10 arm them that's fine, but no troops or advisors.Let them take care of their own shit so no onn e can say we are sticking our noses in it. This would also be great payback for Lockerbie.
Posted by chris 2011-03-01 18:16||   2011-03-01 18:16|| Front Page Top

#11 First off, the Euros should be in the forefront of any major Diplomatic, Military, + Media effort in Libyuh, NOT the US, since North Africa + other Continental regions were once part of their old Empires. Given the well-repor, on-going Euro + Global econ trubles, its also a good opportunity for NATO-EU to test the viability of their new Multi-State
"DEFENSE/SECURITY-SHARING" CONCEPT.

The above being said, once again IMO iff the US-West/Allies fear the LT covert usurpation by Radical Islam = Iran? of the various "Jasmine" pro-democracy protest agendums, THEN IT IS THEIR INTEREST TO KEEP GADDAFI AROUND AS A "HEDGE" AGZ RADICAL ISLAM + IRAN.

Since he unilater gave up Libya's Nucprogs under EX-POTUS DUBYA = GLOBAL WARMING, however imperfect he has been "OUR MAN IN NORTH AFRICA/SAHARA", or one of them.

GADDAFI'S LEGACY IS THE MODERNIZATION OF BACKWARD LIBYA - IMO he has a vested interest in ensuring that Radical Islam doesn't rollback the modernist progress Libyuh has enjoyed under his tenure. His character = personal profile is such that even iff he unilater resigned today or tomorrow from holding Political Office, HE WILL LIKELY STILL TRY TO REMAIN AN INDISPENSABLE MAJOR POWERBROKER IN POST-JASMINE LIBYAN + REGIONAL POLITICS. The Man may not like the US or Israel, but IMO he's NOT going to stand for anyone rolling Libya back towards the 19th Century or Middle Ages, MUSLIM OR NOT.

THE MAN IS NOT THE COLD WAR, PRO-US-WEST SHAH OF IRAN, BUT HE "COULD BE" FROM NOW ON IFF THE US-WEST/ALLIES PLAY THIER CARDS RIGHT.

"JASMINE" + POST-JASMINE", THE US PRIORITY RIGHT NOW IS PRESERVATION OF ME = ARAB-MUSLIM DEMOCRACY, + DETERRING OR PREVENTING COVERT USURPATION BY NUKE-HAPPY, TERROR-HAPPY, ANTI-DEMOCRATIC/PROGRESSIVE RADICAL ISLAM.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-03-01 19:34|| na  2011-03-01 19:34|| Front Page Top

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