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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Actually the Confederacy tried hard to get both France and Britain involved on the South’s side. They were making some headway on the British due to cotton exports but never really got that close to getting them to commit.
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But team Clinton has been on the march for the last six months, IMO. They will not allow this farce to continue into 2012, because of the implications for the Senate.
I think it's been Barry's intention all along to allow Qaddafi to stay right where he is.
Kosovo II: Electric Boogaloo.
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Maybe Clinton could send Obama to lead the bombing.
Then the headlines could read: Clinton sends dope to bomb Libya
What someone tries is not the point: would anybody, including the Confederates consider that within the international law? Of course not.
Laws are laws and principles are principles only if applied uniformly. The same Confederates would scream "bloody murder" if the Northerners did the same thing.
More ‘see Spot run’ diplomacy from the smartest woman in America.
I dunno, looks more like “prep the battlespace before mission start” to me. It’s logical - doesn’t mean I agree with the policy position. We’re stretched way too thin as it is.
Colonel, USAFR
War means fighting and fighting means killing.
NO
Bush's fault.
Obama let his mouth write a check some poor GI’s ass is gonna hafta cash. He already said that Ghaddaffy Duck is gotta go, and that he was unacceptable. He’s more or less recognized the rebels, whomever they may be, as the legitimate government of Libya. Once Obama called on Gaddaffy to leave, his continuing survival is a defeat for the U.S. That’s the problem with being president, people take your words seriously.
Opportunist in Chief Clinton strikes again! Go back to what he said about Bush’s military actions. There is no logic to Clinton’s positions. You can’t even gauge them by whether a Democrat or Republican is taking the action. As always with him, its pure opportunism and positioning himself.
Since when does international law allow for interference in a civil war that has not overflowed the national borders?
That was also true for the early stages of Vietnam. But the big part is that yes, these wars have their own differences.
As a matter of fact, Korea and Vietnam were both instances of Civil Wars in which we intervened. Granada and Somalia are also of a similar nature.
As far as international law goes, it doesn’t have all that great of a record for being followed.
No fly-zone means bombing
Blow jobs don’t mean sex
Planet Bill is a crazy place.
Field Marshall Clinton? Will we bomb tanks, troop convoys pro government supply lines?
We really should not be getting involved in a country’s civil war. At least Vietnam was two countries fighting with North Vietnam wanting to take over the South. And even then liberals considered it a “civil war”. Well, this IS a civil war.
They were close enough to force Lincoln’s hand & issue the Emancipation Proclamation after Antietam, which was directly intended to make any foreign government an apologist for slavery.
There were strong movements in Europe to send a mixed army to separate the sides and force arbitration.
Lincoln’s strategy worked very well in that regard.
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Thunder Thighs Warns?? She is always good for a laugh,should be on stage somewhere!
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