Posted on 03/22/2014 4:18:11 PM PDT by PaulCruz2016
An anniversary passed this week that went almost completely unremarked — and for good reason. March 17th marked the three-year anniversary of the UN Security Council resolution imposing a no-fly zone over Libya to stop the Moammar Qaddafi regime from attacking rebel-held Benghazi and Ajdabiya, and the three-year anniversary on the 19th of the NATO war on Libya. French, British, and American planes began bombarding the Qaddafi regime, an air war that would continue for months — while Barack Obama refused to request Congressional approval for it. Later, Obama would claim that Libya represented the smart model of Western intervention.
If so, why did these anniversaries pass unremarked? The Associated Press report on the status of Libya today gives a very good answer, although it is not written as such. Libya has become a failed state, where the government’s writ doesn’t run outside of its capital, and not even everywhere within that. Not only is it a dangerous place, but it is a danger to the surrounding nations in north Africa too:
Libya, where hundreds of militias hold sway and the central government is virtually powerless, is awash in millions of weapons with no control over their trafficking. The arms free-for-all fuels not only Libya’s instability but also stokes conflicts around the region as guns are smuggled through the country’s wide-open borders to militants fighting in insurgencies and wars stretching from Syria to West Africa.
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And Kosovo is even worse.
It seems all these tin horn dictators have banana republic type countries, but aren't they all worse off now than they were before?
So, Obama has destroyed Egypt, Libya and tried to destroy Syria.......with American taxpayer money. Yet, Putin rules the world. Obama has broken a lot since coming to power......yet it is ALWAYS someone else’s fault!
As usual, the keyboard warrior Ed Morrissey gets it wrong. Unlike Ed the dope, I worked with Israeli companies as a contractor when the Libyan civil war started.
The NATO bombing had squat to do with Quaddafi’s demise. Quaddafi messed up by ordering his army to kill Libyans. When the army refused and 75% of them told Quaddafi to go FYU, he sealed his fate.
Then that idiot SOB ordered his southern mercenary army, made up of idiot, poor African immigrants, to go kill Libyans.
The country exploded in rage after the mercenaries killed students at the universities.
The Army deserters, who raided and emptied the armories, joined the provincial militias. The rest is history. The NWO hero Quaddafi, admired by Hillary and obuma, ended up dead on the hood of an SUV, shot dead with his own gold-plated glock.
The Israelis were monitoring Hillary, and she went bat-chit crazy after she learned that her Nazi buddy Quaddafi got shot dead. She wanted the UN to indict Libyan army deserters for crimes against humanity.
The Libyan incident was an exercise that scared the crap out of the NWO fascists. The NWO pigs like Hillary, Soros, Obama and Bush knew that they had lost control. It scared the hell out of them.
That’s not how I remember it.
1. Gaddafi was winning in March 2011. His forces wiped out all rebel gains, and were on the outskirts of the city that started the rebellion (Benghazi) when, at the 11th hour, the U.N. allowed for a no-fly zone, and France immediately blew up all his tanks and artillery surrounding the city, and prevented him from using his air force anymore.
2. After that intervention, the war dragged on for another seven months, despite the world’s elite air powers essentially acting as the rebels’ own personal air force.
Sorry, but it’s really hard to imagine the rebels having won without the foreign intervention they received.
That’s not how I remember it.’
Remember what? Some incipient news report that you favor.
That’s okay. You weren’t there.
We could ask the same about Saddam Hussein and Iraq. I mean with all the sectarian fighting, Al-Qaeda making strategic headway and now 9 year old brides? US lives and/or money would appear to buy the best problems possible!
And don`t look now but we have many people, some on this forum, that want to do a wash and repeat in the Ukraine. I wonder which economic collapse would be better, one driven by militarism or one driven by a welfare society?
Oh yeah - The Nobama Spring
The Washington way of "spreading democracy", as it was on its way on Maidan place in Kiew, with cocktail Molotov, bats and guns.
BTTT
Notice you didn’t dispute anything I wrote. I can post actual news reports and sources backing up what I wrote, you can just say “I remember”.
You seem to think standing in the general vicinity makes you some sort of expert, and that’s laughable.
A quote is attributed to Qaddafi along the lines of “If it wasn’t for me, the mobs would be running wild in the street.”
Don’t know if true or not, but, if so he pretty well had his country pegged.
It is true of Assad in Syria, and was true with Saddam in Iraq.
It's just the nature of the beast in that part of the world, it's naive to think otherwise.
You seem to think standing in the general vicinity makes you some sort of expert, and that’s laughable.
You seem to think that reading news stories makes you a genuis, but that actually makes you a blathering left-wing moron.
A quote is attributed to Qaddafi along the lines of “If it wasn’t for me, the mobs would be running wild in the street.”
Hosni Mubarak of Egypt told them much the same - I’m paraphrasing “If you don’t want me, you will get islamists, Muslim Brotherhood, and chaos”
I remember reading reports from Iraq after the invasion that the Iraqi perception of “freedom” was not the same as ours. To them it seemed that freedom was doing whatever you wanted, whenever you wanted, and, to whoever you wanted to. Rules were out the window and repercussion was no longer feared because they were now “free.”
In all of the “Arab Spring” states we see something not unlike that mindset showing itself.
..........we can apply Hillary Clinton’s most famous epithet to this one................”at this point, what difference does it make?”
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