There was a time when the Germans were less fearful about fighting in the Libyan desert.
Posted on 03/17/2011 10:39:29 PM PDT by americanophile
Germany said on Friday it had abstained from voting for a U.N. resolution authorising a no-fly zone over Libya because it sees "considerable dangers and risks" in military action against Muammar Gaddafi. Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in a statement after the Security Council vote that German troops "will not take part in a military operation in Libya".
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There was a time when the Germans were less fearful about fighting in the Libyan desert.
They are just like the chins and the russians. they visions of marks in their eyes.
Yeah but things didn't work out very well for them back then.
“There was a time when the Germans were less fearful about fighting in the Libyan desert.”
The Libyans were mostly on Rommel’s side, then....
Since the fall of the Third Reich the Germans have believed in nothing and, in a sense, everything.
They are cursed.
There is no reason any western nation should support either side, since we do not know whether the “revolutionaries” will be better or worse than qadaffy.
Germany is simply practicing logical statesmanship.
If qadaffy is still there a year from now, nations that took military action against him will have a big helping of egg on their face.
Wait and see is apparently not practiced when islamic revolutions come into play.
There is no care for the citizenry of Libya; if there was, there would have been a lot more involvement in Sudan. Oh, wait, muslims did not need anyone’s help when they slaughtered in Sudan.
The Bundesweher is not the Wehrmacht.
I’ll say.
I guess they didn't want to inflame the situation huh?
...probably best not to try to start WWIII.
lol...
Having Israel involved in a military raid against an Arab nation would be madness.
lol....
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No, smart.
We’ll dig ourselves further in the debt hole to stop (not likely) what is really inter-tribal warfare.
If not for the oil, nobody would give a ...poop. Just another hadji on hadji war.
Witness Dafur, Iran vs Iraq, Iraq vs Iraq, Lybia Vs Chad, Chad vsw Chad, the list could go on forever.
But stop the oil flowing into Europe and they get pissed - and hold our coat while we do the fighting, dying and paying.
All good for the EU.
Sorry, let them sort it out on their own. If ga-Daffy wins, count on all the oil going to China.
2nd posible outcome - Egypt takes large swaths of Lybia and now controls the oil. Oh, ya, real good outcome there, eh?
And Egypt has been running amrs and military support (UNit 777) from day one of the “rebellion - or is it a proxy war. I just can’t tell anymore.
Baden-Württemberg elections are a week from Sunday. Merkel is in a shaky, if not disfunctional, coalition and needs to play her cards close to her chest.
Baden-Württemberg is the bellwether vote, IMHO.
With EU debt issues, nuke hype, an E10 fiasco, a 'boondongle' Stuttgart train station, etc., Merkel doesn't need another hot button issue in the run up to the election.
There is also not a lot of sympathy for muslims here, especially after the Frankfurt shootings.
I think Germans are just more concerned about getting their own house in order rather than sticking their nose in other countries business right now.
Just my opinion.
I take it Guido’s from the southern part of Germany...
No. Smart.
Who to back?
Khadaffi who backed the PanAm 103 bombing, but later coughed up his WMDs....
or the 'revolutionaries' who are at least backed in part by the Muslim Brotherhood, who tie in with AlQaida, Hamas, and Hizb'allah?
In the long run, either will sell oil, their economy will demand it.
Backing the loser might be a screwup for the Germans, and backing the winner might be a losing proposition, too.
I view this much as a family fight--if you ain't family, stay out of it.
Let the Muslims handle it.
We don't have any business in this one either.
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