Posted on 03/20/2011 11:51:14 AM PDT by Racehorse
The Arab League secretary general, Amr Moussa, deplored the broad scope of the U.S.-European bombing campaign in Libya on Sunday and said he would call a new league meeting to reconsider Arab approval of the Western military intervention.
Moussa said the Arab League’s approval of a no-fly zone on March 12 was based on a desire to prevent Moammar Gaddafi’s air force from attacking civilians and was not designed to embrace the intense bombing and missile attacks—including on Tripoli, the capital, and on Libyan ground forces—that have filled Arab television screens for the last two days.
“What is happening in Libya differs from the aim of imposing a no-fly zone,” he said in a statement on the official Middle East News Agency. “And what we want is the protection of civilians and not the shelling of more civilians.”
Moussa’s declaration suggested some of the 22 Arab League members were taken aback by what they have seen and wanted to modify their approval lest they be perceived as accepting outright Western military intervention in Libya. Although the eccentric Gaddafi is widely looked down on in the Arab world, Middle Eastern leaders and their peoples traditionally have risen up in emotional protest at the first sign of Western intervention.
A shift away from the Arab League endorsement, even partial, would constitute an important setback to the U.S.-European campaign. Western leaders brandished the Arab League decision as a justification for their decision to move militarily and as a weapon in the debate to obtain a U.N. Security Council resolution two days before the bombing began.
As U.S. and European military operations entered their second day, however, most Arab governments maintained public silence . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Open the can of worms and dump it on Zero.
Apparently the children in the White House have never sat in the Khan el-Khalili in Cairo and dickered with an Arab. We have been played like a fiddle.
Well, they should get off their collective lard asses and do something!
I am so tired of these gigantic sacks of corrupt camel poo and their so called religion.
did anyone just hear a mousetrap snap shut?
How the HELL do they think a ‘no-fly zone’ is created? with flying carpets?
I am SICKTODEATH of hearing about ‘muslim land’ / ‘our holy land’. There is no incorporating muslims into a based-on-equals world community. There will never be a welcome mat in the muslim world for Christians or athiests or agnostics or treehuggers and they will never cooperate for a common cause - you might as well try to ride the sun.
IMO JMO MOO
The word *steadfast” does not exist in the Arab dictionary.
Surely you jest.
I rarely agree with this view of the U.S., but now I do in the case of the U.S. beginning another war in the Middle East.
Libya: Another quagmire beckons.
In the short space of a decade, the U.S. has made war in three Muslim nations, and Canada in two. For many Muslims, any just cause for these conflicts is beside the point. Shoddy affairs like Rep. Peter King (R-NY)’s congressional witchhunt on Muslims are easily enough overlooked in Karachi and Jakarta. But Western military attacks on sovereign Muslim nations can’t help but appear to many of the world’s estimated 1.2 billion to 1.6 billion Muslims - or about 20% of the world population - as a determined assault on the Muslim world.
http://thestar.blogs.com/davidolive/2011/03/libya-another-quagmire-beckons.html
Oh so now they are complaining after their Muslim Brother Obama decided to help them? This does speak volumes doesn’t it?
Just nuke Libya—they aren’t worth the trouble and money to “help” them!
Tell them fine you handle Libya,Iraq and Afghanistan,We need to go home and drill for Oil.
Well, that didn’t take long.
LOL! Jimmah’s, uh, I mean Barrack’s Big Middle Eastern Adventure is blowing up in his face already!
Guess I wasn’t the only one that was surprised to see tanks being blown up in a no-fly zone.
Next thing you know, the Arab League is going to say that they thought a no-fly zone meant a place where you used bug spray to try and kill flys.
And I'm "Shocked" the wapo is the first liberal rag to be screaming that the arab league is "Shocked". Tomorrow you will be seeing hundreds dead at the hands of the Great Satan. I'll be even more "Shocked". And in two weeks the people of Libya will be calling for the removal of the Great Satan from the new muslim brotherhood controlled country of Libya. It will be "shocking". Obama/hillery have been played like a fiddle.......someone is laughing somewhere.
Exactly.
The point being is that the emotions of the moment rue the Arab world. They are dependable for nothing and any “alliance” the Western powers may have with them is always fleeting on their part. Basically a culture with the maturity of a five year old.
The moment the Arab League said that, I would have halted all military action and withdrawn our forces to a safe distance.
Then tell the Arab League, you're right. Our efforts to enforce a no-fly zone and protect the people of Libya has caused civilian causalities. We have ceased all action and withdraw to a safe, non-intervention distance.
You have spend countless billions of dollars on building your military forces. We will sit back and take notes as you show us how to deal with this issue without causing any civilian causalities or collateral damage. The world is watching and so are we. This is your problem in your neighborhood. Show us your solution.
Ha-ha, ha-ha, ha-ha! Who could`nt see this coming? So much for the commies “coalition.” Condemnation from the UN will be next, and Canada and our European allies will start backing out, leaving the US holding the bag.
Our people in the White House are extremely naive, but so are the Arabs.
Are we now the world police attacking sovereign nations with no strategic vital national interests -we just find and protect "innocent civilians"?
The primary function and mandate of a government is to its citizens. The US has no stated vital interest in Libya...
I say call a spade a spade. IF there is some interest then 0marxo should state it and see if Americans agree with him. This action clearly is an act of war and support of revolutionaries unknown in Libya. 0marxo is being given a free ride by the press as he engages in this odyssey...
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