Posted on 04/15/2011 1:08:04 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
Competing groups of Republican senators have introduced resolutions aiming either to boost or curtail the U.S. role in Libya, a sign of how divided Congress is on the military operations there.
One motion, introduced by Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the powerful top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, would authorize U.S. forces to operate inside Libya in an effort to keep the situation there from deteriorating into a stalemate between strongman Moammar Gadhafi and the rebels.
"Rather than playing a support role within NATO, America should be leading," McCain said at an Armed Services panel hearing April 7. "Our military should be actively engaged in degrading Gadhafi's forces in the field, which could significantly increase the pressure on his regime and the odds that it will crack."
But fellow GOP Sens. John Ensign of Nevada and Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas disagree. Indeed, they argue, the United States has no vital interest in Libya.
Reading this story you'd think that President Obama had nothing at all to do with this quagmire.
Of course, comically, in the same story that starts out with the phrase "Competing groups of Republican senators have introduced resolutions aiming either to boost or curtail the U.S. role in Libya", they at least add the sentence "The Obama administration is likely to disagree with both measures.", which is undoubtedly correct.
ABC News: Libya: Republicans Divided on the Extent of U.S. Involvement in Oil-Rich Country's War
By KIRIT RADIA and MATTHEW JAFFE April 15, 2011
No division with me... we have no business in that Nation for any reason.
LLS
Those with a more realistic understanding of the war, meanwhile, are advising congress merely to take an enormous pile of cash and flush it down the toilet, thus saving energy and lives while accomplishing the same ultimate goal.
Your somehow surprised ABC news has an agenda?
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