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UN OKs Libya airstrikes, no-fly zone
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| 03/17/11
Posted on 03/17/2011 4:04:30 PM PDT by MissesBush
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To: MissesBush
This is an opportunity for the EU to step up, not the US.
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posted on
03/17/2011 4:54:49 PM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: Uncle Ike; HollyB; mewzilla; Ernest_at_the_Beach; no-to-illegals; Pan_Yan; paulycy; ColdOne; ...
Ping!
Who thought we’d live long enough to see the UN waging war?
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posted on
03/17/2011 4:57:37 PM PDT
by
SE Mom
(Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
To: RetiredArmy
Thanks.
It will be interesting to see how this play out. I assume the French and the Brits will play a rather large role, but it’s hard to conceive the United States staying out.
Personally I think we might have been better off staying out of it. The arab league supports a no fly zone, and surely have the collective resources to fix their own mess.
Anyhow, it will be interesting to see the Typhoons in action...
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posted on
03/17/2011 4:58:42 PM PDT
by
Eurotwit
To: Thunder90
>>>>We might as well take out regime targets and encircle Tripoli with Marines (and take the oilfields under Quadaffi control).<<<<<
Tripoli is the city of 2M, the majority of fighting age. If you calculate 3:1 ratio for the expeditionary forces, how many Marines do you need?
Instead of "to the shores of Tripoli" it could turn into the streets of Mogadishu.
There was a wrong intel from the get go. Read In Charge of the Light Brigade and reflect.
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posted on
03/17/2011 5:01:40 PM PDT
by
DTA
To: Oldeconomybuyer
This is an opportunity for the EU to step up, not the US.
Hell no. leave the EU out of this.
What has the EU to do if the french want to bomb libya?
I guess the same could be said for the US.
Now that france is “allowed” from the UN let them fight if they want. The brits can join too if they want (btw. I highly doubt that the british public does want this).
But for the rest sorry but not our war!
To: MissesBush
The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none; or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities. Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people under an efficient government. the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.
-George Wahington
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posted on
03/17/2011 5:03:40 PM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
To: MissesBush
So, just WHO is supposed to enforce and pay for this no fly zone?
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posted on
03/17/2011 5:04:13 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
To: MissesBush
This is what the world looks like with no USA leadership!!
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posted on
03/17/2011 5:05:16 PM PDT
by
SIRTRIS
To: umgud
Be fair. The people cheering the Pan Am bomber are not likely the people fighting Gadaffi’s regime now—they’re probably the ones fighting the rebels—nor do I recall seeing any celebrations of 9-11 in Tripoli. In Gaza and the West Bank and in Baghdad under Saddam’s command yes, but not in Libya.
To: MissesBush
So the UN decides to spend American money only after it will do no good and be a total waste. Will they blame us if Qadaffi kills his hostages too?
Bet on it.
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posted on
03/17/2011 5:05:42 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
To: MissesBush
So Obama, the anti-war, Nobel Peace Price winning, Bush-hating president is about to launch an undeclared war on a nation that has not attacked the United States. Is that right?
71
posted on
03/17/2011 5:10:16 PM PDT
by
americanophile
("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives"-Ataturk)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/17/2011 5:11:32 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: MissesBush
This means a likely ground invasion of Tripoli. It also allows the US capture Quadaffi. Maby he will get a free trip to Gitmo.
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posted on
03/17/2011 5:15:00 PM PDT
by
Thunder90
(Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
To: MissesBush
Will the Cheese Eatin’ Surrender Monkeys allow US fighters to fly over their airspace? If I recall correctly, the frenchies had a problem with it about 35 years ago when Reagan tried to take out Gaddafi.
F the French!
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posted on
03/17/2011 5:15:17 PM PDT
by
coaltrain
(Obama's a Harvard lawyer like Elvis was a Black Belt)
To: DTA
We need just enough Marines and soldiers (and NATO troops) to deny Libyan army transit in and out of Tripoli (and to capture any oilfields under his control).
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posted on
03/17/2011 5:20:15 PM PDT
by
Thunder90
(Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
To: Eurotwit
I hope that’s right. The French and Brits pushed for this resolution let them put up the blood and treasure.
76
posted on
03/17/2011 5:20:47 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
To: MissesBush
By air strikes, do they mean that other Arab tyrants will start bombing Benghazi now?
77
posted on
03/17/2011 5:24:23 PM PDT
by
Redcloak
(What's your zombie plan?)
To: MissesBush
“he could well be doomed though chances are airstrikes will only be used on air defense positions.”
A couple of ‘errant’ 2000lbs bombs make his troops think twice about fighting for Ghadaffi
To: RetiredArmy
Oh, but of course! Any glimmer of hope that the U.S. could keep its forces out of this were sure to be short lived.
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posted on
03/17/2011 5:27:36 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
To: Rebelbase
Hold you calls we have a winner. Give this man a cigar!
80
posted on
03/17/2011 5:28:20 PM PDT
by
Drill Thrawl
(I don't prep for the disaster. I prepare for the rebuilding.)
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