Posted on 03/17/2011 12:10:04 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Clinton: No-fly zone means bombing
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Thursday that establishing a United Nations-sanctioned no-fly zone over Libya would require bombing targets of Muammar Qadhafi’s regime there.
“A no-fly zone requires certain actions taken to protect the planes and the pilots, including bombing targets like the Libyan defense systems,” Clinton said in Tunis, her last stop on a trip that also took her to Cairo and Paris.
In all her stops, Clinton’s done a mix of stressing the need for democracy in post-revolution Tunisia and Egypt, and pushing for international cooperation in responding to the crisis in Libya. On Thursday, her only full day in Tunisia, Clinton promised that the United States “will stand with you as you make the transition to democracy, prosperity and a better future.”
Clinton’s remarks came as the United Nations Security Council prepared to vote later Thursday on a resolution to create the no-fly zone.
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Wow - we went from “no fly zone” to “bomb what we want zone” pretty fast...
Wag the dog.
Since when does international law allow for interference in a civil war that has not overflowed the national borders?
A month ago no one had any intention of going in and taking out Qadhafi. Why should we be more inclined to take him out today then we were a month ago? Same guy today as a month ago. Doesn’t look any crazier today than a month ago.
If our goal was to take out Qadhafi we had a window last week. We blew it.
I wonder if this is the admin’s way of telling Qaddafi to hurry up...
So Hillary listened to Gates.
... and this is why we should let the Europeans and the Arab League do it.
No one is going to love us if we do it. Not Daffy’s loyalists, not the Arab League, not the new Jihadis we’d be installing in his place, not Al Qaeda. So why do it?
Wow... mission creep before mission start.
Whaddayaknow... Hillary is SecDef, too!
Baraqaddafi needs to appear decisive. All about The One, you know...
Baraqaddafi needs to appear decisive. All about The One, you know...
Baraqaddafi needs to appear decisive. All about The One, you know...
That was weird. Only hit “post” once, but it posted up three times.
Well, if we entertain the idea of a no-fly zone, before that can begin, we gotta ace the Colonel’s air defense network.
As for myself, I think we should sit this one out. It’s another tar baby.
"Oh, we forgot to define our terms. 'No fly zone' means that if we detect so much as a single housefly taking wing, anywhere in your country, we're going to bomb you into oblivion."
By saying “bombing would be required” they’re really simply trying to give themselves an out for doing NOTHING —what Obama does best.
Besides eat ice-cream, sound reaaaaly unruffled, or hit the beaches in Rio.
They’re trying to minimize the political cost with their whacko left BASE of doing nothing.
Those rebels are toast —hugely telling that they were appealing to GEORGE BUSH for help.
Why can’t he be appear decisive...Like Ronald Reagan and lob a cruise missile on his tent...?!?
Who CARES ? Both sides hate us!!!!!
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