LYBIA IS NOT OUR BUSINESS-LET THEM FIGHT IT OUT. I DON'T WANT OBAMA SENDING A SINGLE BAYONET TO LYBIA. LET EUROPE STEP UP TO THE PLATE AND DO SOMETHING IF THEY DON'T LIKE THE KILLINGS...
"It is a start. Let's see what happens when the opposition tries to enter Tripoli with force. Will these paid mecenaries die for Gadhafi or head for the borders."
Strange the Obama Administration vetoed the resolution condemning Israel against violence towards Palestinians using no less - white phosphorous bombs against civilians - with all UN voting members in support and in favor of the resolution... and now we turn against Moammar Gadhafi, as though he's done something wrong, as compared to Israel.
Nobel Peace prize... What a joke.
For the USA to be respected, it needs to be consistently on the side of justice and not opportunistic in favor of the acquisition and maintenance of wealth at any cost at either the expense of non-Americans nor to our basic values to which we purport to stand for.
Our treachery against Moammar Gadhafi is no different than the Bush Administration's assessment that the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein, but in actuality, it was the oil that was our concern for our petroleum industry, with Cheney at the helm.
Had Israel had oil that we wanted to plunder, we might have long ago have voted against them and absconded with what was lying beneath the surface long enough to empty it, and leave them to twist in the wind. But Israel keeps the area in foment - to our advantage.
The game is now changing and not to our advantage. The next Muslim generation has seen the true America and super powers like China, that mind their own business and actually pay for goods and services, will in the end dominate.
Because Libya needs to give itself freedom, remember what happened last time we tried forcing Democracy on a country, Operation desert storm. We successfully put a country in terrorists hands
I can't decide either ... I feel like somebody in the Bush zone (ie slightly crazy himself) might have come out right away and denounced Gadhafi, even before he'd been able to organize removal of Americans. Then if any of them were targeted by the regime in retaliation, he might have used that as a pretext to enter the country and 'take him out' like he used to say about Saddam.
Either that or he might have stood by Gadhafi because of the oil and sent Condi over there to try and get him to calm down and make changes to appease the 'peasants' (ie we the people).
I too get the feeling though that 95% of past Presidents would feel the need to do more, even AFTER all that's happened Bush mucking things up in the Middle East by invading and starting a civil war when he was really after the oil, thereby using up all that goodwill currency ...
Gadhafi lived under sanctions for years and they didn't do any good. The only ones who suffered were the Libyan people. The only thing that's going to do any good is for someone to take Gadhafi and his children and his entire regime out. Get rid of them so that none of them can ever be in power again.
Abunker: "I would argue that Obama is as insane or more so than Ghadafi."
I'm sure you would, regardless of the fact that you have no credible evidence to support your argument. As is the case with the vast majority of the republican criticism, you have nothing to pin your argument on but your own ill-conceived fantasies. You are quick to criticise but you have absolutely no idea of what to do about anything. How about putting forth a plan or even a vague idea of how this situation should be dealt with? Anything? Anything at all? No? Just as I thought. Nothing but blind, rabid hate backed up by an over-abundance of ignorance!
A U.S. official said the Tripoli embassy's operations were suspended when a chartered flight took the last embassy staff out of the country at 1:49 p.m. =============================================== Too, little and days too late. Typical of Obama and company to abandon their post in Libya while other Americans are still trying to get out.
K. Daraa our government workers were in Tripoli doing our work. Our government put them there. The other Americans there were there on their own free will. They knew the dangers of being in Libya, they are not our government's responsibility. The government will help them out, but it will take time and tax dollars.
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Strange the Obama Administration vetoed the resolution condemning Israel against violence towards Palestinians using no less - white phosphorous bombs against civilians - with all UN voting members in support and in favor of the resolution... and now we turn against Moammar Gadhafi, as though he's done something wrong, as compared to Israel.
Nobel Peace prize... What a joke.
For the USA to be respected, it needs to be consistently on the side of justice and not opportunistic in favor of the acquisition and maintenance of wealth at any cost at either the expense of non-Americans nor to our basic values to which we purport to stand for.
Our treachery against Moammar Gadhafi is no different than the Bush Administration's assessment that the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein, but in actuality, it was the oil that was our concern for our petroleum industry, with Cheney at the helm.
Had Israel had oil that we wanted to plunder, we might have long ago have voted against them and absconded with what was lying beneath the surface long enough to empty it, and leave them to twist in the wind. But Israel keeps the area in foment - to our advantage.
The game is now changing and not to our advantage. The next Muslim generation has seen the true America and super powers like China, that mind their own business and actually pay for goods and services, will in the end dominate.
////// What would Hillary be doing if she had become PRESIDENT ???
Why not send in NATO ?
I can't decide either ... I feel like somebody in the Bush zone (ie slightly crazy himself) might have come out right away and denounced Gadhafi, even before he'd been able to organize removal of Americans. Then if any of them were targeted by the regime in retaliation, he might have used that as a pretext to enter the country and 'take him out' like he used to say about Saddam.
Either that or he might have stood by Gadhafi because of the oil and sent Condi over there to try and get him to calm down and make changes to appease the 'peasants' (ie we the people).
I too get the feeling though that 95% of past Presidents would feel the need to do more, even AFTER all that's happened Bush mucking things up in the Middle East by invading and starting a civil war when he was really after the oil, thereby using up all that goodwill currency ...
Who knows though ... just speculation ...
I'm sure you would, regardless of the fact that you have no credible evidence to support your argument. As is the case with the vast majority of the republican criticism, you have nothing to pin your argument on but your own ill-conceived fantasies. You are quick to criticise but you have absolutely no idea of what to do about anything. How about putting forth a plan or even a vague idea of how this situation should be dealt with? Anything? Anything at all? No? Just as I thought. Nothing but blind, rabid hate backed up by an over-abundance of ignorance!
He wants us to be broke physically and financially.
Ol Baggy hates America more than most.
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Too, little and days too late.
Typical of Obama and company to abandon their post in Libya while other Americans are still trying to get out.