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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From 40,000 feet again?
Why is the Secretary of State leading this charge? Shouldn't the Secretary of Defense be more prominent here? And frankly...
The President himself should be out front explaining the goals and reasons behind his policy.
Once again, Obama is AWOL.
My impression was that in all instances you mentioned we intervened only after other foreign powers did so. Am I wrong?
There’s a lot of specifics if you want to consider us after the other powers. However, in the Civil War portion of Vietnam (Vietnamese vs. Vietnamese) we were the lead to getting involved in Vietnam. There were revolts against the French in the late 1940s and up to 1954 when the French withdrew, but this was not a civil war because it was not Vietnamese killing each other, for the most part.
That’s my question also who are these rebels.
Are you suggesting that we did so before the USSR?
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