Posted on 07/26/2011 7:51:57 PM PDT by Borough Park
By Bruce Crumley, TIME
It's getting harder and harder to believe there'll eventually be a resolution to Libya's civil war that will allow anyone to claim Moammar Gadhafi lost to rebel forces — or was humbled by members of the NATO-led coalition waging air strikes against him.
Indeed, it's becoming increasingly clear as the weeks rush by that battle-weary European partners in the intervention force are keener to find ways of ending the conflict and pull forces back home than they are to obtain their initial objectives of seeing Gadhafi deposed and forced abroad. The upshot is the sound of diplomatic throats being cleared ever louder to prepare public opinion for the now-probable scenario of the operation ending without Gadhafi having budged much.
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So do we need to raise the debt ceiling in order to continue the funding of this “mission”?
Didn’t Oloser say this thing would be over in a matter of days?
‘days, not weeks’ was the line
These guys are regular Napoleons and Wellingtons aren’t they?
Another classic case of trying to win a war by not conducting a war in the way a war should be conducted to win.
Obama + the French= Fail
This one appears to be over money, pure and simple i.e. the $5T which Libya represents.
The Obama Policy: “Anything worth doing is worth doing ... half-arsed at best”
comrade obama told qadhafy to get out of town.
Has Hussein declared victory yet?
Did you expect something different with military powerhouses such as France, Spain, Italy, etc. The European Union has decimated the military capability of all of Europe. They should be worried that the arab states might attack them.
20 More years of republicans like boner and we will be shinning shoes for the EU.
It helps to have a rational reason to fight the war in the first place not whatever cockamayme reason Urkel tries to foist on us. Apparently he figured Republicans are such war mongers that any war, any where. any time would raise his popularity with patriots.
My feelings at the time was “why not let neutered sleeping dogs lie?”
they are running out of
precision guided munitions
Gadaffi isn’t doing what O wants...obviously because he’s racist.
I’m sure Putin is doing the double face palm himself, just thinking about NATO keeping the Bear out of Western Europe for over 60 years.
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