Posted on 03/31/2011 5:03:56 PM PDT by Starman417
When Chinese Tendai Buddhists introduced the Taoist Koshin belief to Japan in the latter part of the 10th Century, I doubt they could have foreseen that The Three Wise Monkeys who Hear no evil, See no evil, Speak no evil, could be used so interchangeably with being "deaf, dumb and blind.". Yet as the beltway fiercely debates arming Libya's rebels, that ancient proverb, and it's familiar visual of the three monkeys comes to mind… and not quite in the way the Buddhists' intended.
Hillary and the Obama admin are Deaf to nation state warnings against arming, effectively rendering the warnings of Defense Sec'y, Robert Gates, a Dumb mute, and Blind to history.
Instead of setting aside such an idea as too risky and out of the question, Obama can't decide, while both Hillary and Britain's PM, David Cameron, have already laid the foundation that it can be legitimately done within the current UN resolution's framework using the broad "any means" to "protect civilians" language.
The French government, which has led the international charge against Colonel Qaddafi, has placed mounting pressure on the United States to provide greater assistance to the rebels. The question of how best to support the opposition dominated an international conference about Libya on Tuesday in London.While Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the administration had not yet decided whether to actually transfer arms, she reiterated that the United States had a right to do so, despite an arms embargo on Libya, because of the United Nations Security Council’s broad resolution authorizing military action to protect civilians.
In a reflection of the seriousness of the administration’s debate, Mr. Obama said Tuesday that he was keeping his options open on arming the rebels. “I’m not ruling it out, but I’m also not ruling it in,” Mr. Obama told NBC News. “We’re still making an assessment partly about what Qaddafi’s forces are going to be doing. Keep in mind, we’ve been at this now for nine days.”
The last of the trio of fools is France who, according to a diplomat and spokesman, is "adamant" about making sure the rebels are heavily armed.
Needless to say, spokesman for the rebels, Mahmoud Shammam, is frothing at the bit for weaponry.
Like the three monkeys, Obama and western leaders cover their ears to Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, warning this could promote terrorism and was an exceedingly dangerous move.
'Our view at the moment is negative because there is no party state established at the moment. In our view this could also create an environment which would be conducive to terrorism and that would, in itself, be dangerous.'
Another voice the three western leaders prefer to remain deaf to is China, who raked Sarkozy over the coals, saying that force is not going to work in Libya against Gaddafi.
China's discomfort has risen as the bombing attacks by the U.S., France, Britain and others have expanded beyond Gadhafi's air forces to include ground forces as well. In doing so, the now NATO-led bombings are exceeding what Beijing thought would be enforcement of a "no-fly zone" to keep Gadhafi from attacking anti-government forces by air.At their meeting in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, Hu suggested that proposals for peaceful means, rather than armed force, in Libya had been given short-shrift but were urgently needed.
"The Chinese side supports all political efforts that would help alleviate the situation in Libya and calls on all parties to immediately cease fire and seek a peaceful solution to avoid more civilian casualties and to restore stability to the situation in Libya," Hu said.
I take that to mean they wouldn't be supportive of arming the rebels either…
More voices they *should* be listing to is leaders of the Global Islamic Jihad Movements, such as Anwar al-Awlaki who sees the ME revolts as a boost for Islamic fundamentalists..
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
I was outraged to hear Gates insinuate that it took ten years for regime change in Iraq?
Oh really???? Seems to me Saddam Hussein was out of there pretty damned quickly. It did NOT take ten years.
How I hate these Obamao sycophants. They turn my stomach.
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