Posted on 02/24/2011 4:48:33 AM PST by Kaslin
Since our leaders evidently have no clue what to do in Libya, let’s give them a few ideas. The basic rules are easy: don’t do anything that is likely to make things worse, and you can forget about “negotiated settlements” once the bloodshed has reached the dimensions now engulfing Libya. Finally, forget the UN (see point 1).
The first thing to do is deprive Gaddafi of as many instruments of mass murder as possible. The most obvious of these is the Libyan Air Force, which is a small and outdated collection of aircraft, many of which belong in a museum. More specifically: some French F-1 fighters, some old Sukhoi’s, some old MIGs, and some helicopter gunships. (h/t Steve Bryen)
Destroy them. It’s easy. Our Air Force can probably wipe them out in less than half an hour. If we want to play “good ally” we can invite other NATO countries to join in. It seems the Brits are available (as they should be, after their disgusting liberation of the Lockerbie bomber), and I’ll bet you anything that the French and Italians, both of whom have decades of complicity with Gaddafi, will be happy to participate. And the French have the Foreign Legion in the area, if memory serves.
That won’t “solve” the problem, but it will ease the people’s pain, and it might lessen the dreadful impression we have created, especially during the Obama years, that we only talk or negotiate slow-acting sanctions; we don’t go in for decisive action (that is so Bush).
The destruction of the Libyan aircraft is a good start, but it would be nice to do more. Once upon a time, the CIA cultivated ambitious military officers (typically colonels) in such places for emergencies such as this. We’d give the word and they’d execute a coup.
I am not up to speed on the capabilities of the clandestine service, but I doubt they have any colonels on the shelf ready to move. I’d love to be wrong, needless to say, and I’m rooting for them, in the unlikely event the president pushes that button. Even if the CIA can’t do it, maybe our military guys have someone.
Yes, I know it’s meddling in another country’s “internal affairs,” and a strike against the Libyan Air Force may be considered an act of war in some lawyers’ offices. But if we did those things we’d save a lot of innocent lives and enhance our chances of being more effective in the future.
We should have done it in Sudan years ago, by the way. We’d have saved a lot of southerners and speeded up the whole process.
Finally, the president should issue an executive order requiring the removal of all those bumper stickers that read “war never solved anything.” As the Marines say, except for fascism, Nazism, communism and warlordism.
The price of poor and worse, untrustworthy leadership is biting America, and the world; big time.
Again.
0bama has made us the laughing stock in the world, and if the left thinks that is leadership, then I don’t know what is
When you see your enemies killing each other in great big batches, don’t run in to stop the carnage.
IOW, no matter what we do, we will shoulder 110% of the blame for everything that follows.
And what is about to follow is very likely to be another islamic state, or at least, something just as bad as the current rulers.
Sit back and pass the popcorn.
We have no leverage here.
That arrogant pos who currently resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave will do nothing other then apologize
What? Isn’t leadership defined (in the Obama camp) as being blindfolded and pinning the tail on the Donkey, I mean walking around blinfolded trying to figure out where the a*s is?
What? Isn’t leadership defined (in the Obama camp) as being blindfolded and pinning the tail on the Donkey, I mean walking around blinfolded trying to figure out where the a*s is?
I think this calls for another UN condemnation of Israel, no?
excatly, the show is just starting to get good.
The writer is an idiot
He knows not of what he speaks. He assumes something must be done.
Isn’t leadership defined (in the Obama camp) as being blindfolded and pinning the tail on the Donkey, I mean walking around blinfolded trying to figure out where the a*s is?
... and watching Al-Jazeera for international “intel”.
the term self-cleaning oven comes to mind.
I agree.
Is it worth one drop of American blood to replace one dictator with another, who will hate us as much as the old one?
Idiots will never learn will they?
There is already an siginificant anti-US sentiment in Libya, as well as within the entire Middle East, but yeah, lets bomb Libya and help foster a better pro-US view of the US, huh? Idiots. =.=
Good post. I totally agree. We intervene and it will be declared that we stuck our noses in because of oil and used the excuse of stopping the bloodshed. Nobody even asks why fellow muslim countries won’t step in to stop the bloodshed.
What a mess.
These people will hate us no matter what we do.
Just let it run its course and stay out of it.
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