Barack Obama did not think it through...
“On Tuesday Dutch Brigadier General Mark van Uhm, Chief of Allied Operations, and NATO spokesman Carmen Romero briefed the media on NATO’s operation in Libya in support of UNSCR 1973. at NATO headquarters in Brussels,
Van Uhm rejected criticism of the pace of the Libya campaign after French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe had earlier in the day criticized the Alliance for not doing enough.”
It seems ominous to me that the last time the Dutch were in charge of anything it was Sebrenica.
Not a fortuitous omen.
My opinion all along. I don’t know what our force structure in Western Europe is as of 2011, but it should be very small. Our overseas bases and deployment should concentrate on the Far East, Midde East and Med. There is no reason in 2011 for us to have anything in Western Europe. What’s the point in relation to our National Defense?
Pacifist clap trap by the grand ignoriti in the press intent only on writing something controversial to save their suppurating hide from economic death
I say let's take that archaic Monroe Doctrine and that Marshall Plan that says we're supposed to police force the world and throw it out! Let's stay home for the next ten years, people!
-Jake Blues-
Nato is a black hole to throw tax dollars down, time to bury the body. Daffy has won in libya, the ragtags have about four acres left and they are fighting house to house there. Nato will be pulling the ones still alive out shortly.
Thought it looked like an interesting article til I noticed who wrote it.
This guy kind of conflates two mostly-unrelated issues here. On the one hand, yes, we probably need to make Europe get off it’s collective (collectivist?) butt and start investing in their own armed forced, but on the other hand, it’s really boorish of the Zer0 to start a fight and then push it off on other countries just because it’s politically inconvenient to him. I realize this is ostensibly being done under the auspices of the UN, and the other countries did (sort of) join with us voluntarily, but at the same time, I’m sure they did so only because we were along for the ride, and absent us they would have done something else.
“Weekend at Muammar’s”...
But...but...but Bob Beckel said about a month ago that barry´d have this wrapped up inside of a week.
The various Balkan crises of the 1990's showed that the Euros were now 'paper tigers.' But I had some hope left that NATO might pull itself together.
I have no beef with the troops of our allies-- it's their cowardly and stupid political leadership. And Obama is giving us a taste of that medicine.