Posted on 02/28/2011 4:47:51 PM PST by Stayfrosty
BENGHAZI, Libya — Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces struck back on three fronts on Monday, using fighter jets, special forces units and regular army troops in an escalation of hostilities that brought Libya closer to civil war.
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We’d have been rocking Tripoli by now if GWB were in charge. Or even Clinton.
If Ghadaffyduk is overthrown all his people will be killed...they know it. Expect this to get bloodier.
If Ghadaffyduk is overthrown all his people will be killed...they know it. Expect this to get bloodier.
Kind of hard to root for either side. On one side you have a ruthless dictator who murders his own people and on the other you have the likes of the Muslim Brotherhood who would like to simply replace the ruthless dictator with one they would like better.
...using fighter jets, special forces units and regular army troops in an escalation of hostilities that brought Libya closer to civil war.Because the Libyan rebels are about to be recognized by the US and various EU nations, the Yemeni rebels just made a united front against the gov't of Yemen, rejecting either national unity or negotiations. This is the week that the festivities will start in earnest throughout Arabia.
“”I see this as the more democracies we have in hostile lands the less fighting my grandchildren will have to do.””
What country over there beside Israel has ever had a functioning government and cared FOR THEIR PEOPLE??? I am not optimistic that any change in any country in Africa or the ME will ever be able to stand by itself or treat their people fairly. It’s always been a platform for despots and dictators...collect foreign aid from the US, salt it away, and govern as they want UNTIL the day comes and we have what we see today in Lybia and the past few weeks in Egypt and Tunisia.
None of us want our children/grandchildren to go to war but if attitudes don’t change here in our own country about the dangers we face from within and without, they will have no choice but to fight on our own soil - possibly on our southern border. Not a pleasant thought but if it’s not there, it will be in our cities fighting the muslims our country welcomes and invites into our country - visa and scholarships to foreign students indeed! Can we get any crazier?
“Kind of hard to root for either side. “
Wrong.
MURDEROUS TERRORIST-SUPPORTING TYRANT(*) vs THE PEOPLE.
Which side are you on?
And btw, he wont be replaced by muslim brotherhood, that Egypt not Libya.
(*) And he ordered the Lockerbie bombing, that’s enough by itself.
Psssst,,, hey author, when you are being attacked by special forces, regular army units, and tactical aircraft,,, i wouldn’t say that they are getting close to a civil war!
Closer to civil war?
I’d like to know how much closer they could get........
“Death to the socialist muslim terrorist Qaddafi!”
OK Guys, this is ***VERY VERY*** important legally. When you call for the death of a “socialist muslim terrorist”, ALWAYS do like Tailgunner and clearly state the name of whom you are speaking. Otherwise you might get a knock at the door from secret service!!
Yes there is a picture of one waving a couple of WWI bolt actions.
Can you guarantee that it won't become just another Muslim caliphate? No. You can't trust Muslims because taqqia teaches them that it fine to lie to infidels.
I suspect the cure may be worse that the disease.
I foresee all of these revolutions having the hidden hand of Islam fomenting and forming a massive extreme Islamic united region throughout the ME. Look at the map. The dots come together in a scary design.
Especially if the ones getting attack don’t have any of that stuff.
- snicker, snicker -
“Seen the old Catalyst, seen the new, some good bands but usually raunchy weirdos that made Ghaddaffi look sorta like a rock star!”
Sorta, infidel? SORTA?!!!!! I show you!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBY-0n4esNY
The US is now an amoral feckless enterprise. It can’t do anything meaningful to support the rebels in Libya and wouldn’t really know what to do anyway. It’s probably gonna be a bloodbath. Just like the US is a sure-thing to go financially belly-up. But you’re not gonna get real action and meaningful solutions until you get moral leadership.
Without moral leadership, you got nothing.
So do I. The only democracy they want is to vote in an Islamic theocracy. Second best (from their POV) is that they institute an Islamic socialist state.
Read what Islamderthal Anjem Choudary has to say about democracy.
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