Archived material Access restricted Article
Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Fri 03/18/2011 View Thu 03/17/2011 View Wed 03/16/2011 View Tue 03/15/2011 View Mon 03/14/2011 View Sat 03/12/2011 View Fri 03/11/2011
1
2011-03-18 Africa North
UN resolution allows for all necessary force in Libya
Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.
Posted by Fred 2011-03-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ]  Top

#1 Wonder how Susan Rice pulled that one off?

She didn't. It was likely the Arabs.
Posted by Pappy 2011-03-18 00:16||   2011-03-18 00:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Yep, it sure as shit wasn't the U.S.
Posted by rammer 2011-03-18 00:43||   2011-03-18 00:43|| Front Page Top

#3 China, Russia, India and Germany abstained

Well, both China & Russia would like USA (you didn't really imagine the Fwench are going to do anything non-symbolic?)in another un-winnable war. India? What does India care about Libya? Why Germany?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-03-18 06:38||   2011-03-18 06:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Smart money is on this being futile, and Gaddafi being mad-dog pissed at anyone who voted for the no-fly. I'm surprised everyone but the instigators planning to actually use the resolution to bomb Libya didn't abstain. How many abstentions before the vote is void, I wonder? Could one "yes" and fourteen "present" votes pass a resolution?
Posted by Mitch H.  2011-03-18 08:33|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/  2011-03-18 08:33|| Front Page Top

#5 
Posted by  Dribble2716 2011-03-18 08:45||   2011-03-18 08:45|| Front Page Top

#6 It was likely the Arabs.

Okay, so how did they do it?

Both Russia and China like their arms trade with the Arabs but it isn't essential, and likely would continue regardless of what happens in Libya. What would the Arabs have to dish with other than oil and money? Russia has oil and China has money, so what else could the Arabs offer?
Posted by Steve White 2011-03-18 08:58||   2011-03-18 08:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Russia has oil and China has money, so what else could the Arabs offer?

What do Russia and China have in common? Muslim minorities. Maybe the Arabs promised to lay low the next time Russians or the Chinese have to stomp their Muslim populations.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2011-03-18 10:16||   2011-03-18 10:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Russia has oil and China has money, so what else could the Arabs offer?

Option for near-future political and economic influence.

What does India care about Libya? Why Germany?

India still has that 'non-aligned movement' thingy going. As for Germany - if France proposes anything that doesn't benefit Germany, Germany will be against it.

Ever watched a monkey wave a stick around?

No, but we have one that 'posts' every day here.
Posted by Pappy 2011-03-18 11:32||   2011-03-18 11:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Oh, c'mon guys - haven't we learned yet that Germany will do absolutely anything for the right price? Hello? Building bunkers for Saddam? Building reactors for Saddam (along with the Fwench?
Posted by mojo 2011-03-18 17:42||   2011-03-18 17:42|| Front Page Top

23:49 OldSpook
23:05 Shieldwolf
22:56 trailing wife
22:45 lotp
22:33 gorb
22:07 mojo
21:58 linker
21:54 JosephMendiola
21:52 JosephMendiola
21:51 Frank G
21:34 phil_b
21:23 JosephMendiola
21:15 Dale
21:14 linker
21:13 JosephMendiola
21:12 Fi
21:07 Beavis
21:02 admiral allan ackbar
21:01 Swamp Blondie
21:01 JosephMendiola
20:57 CrazyFool
20:56 admiral allan ackbar
20:52 JosephMendiola
20:42 linker









Paypal:
Google
Search WWW Search rantburg.com