Do Something' Is Not A Strategy

RUSI ^ | Adrian Johnson

[Rabin]

UN Security Council voted, with five abstentions, for 'all necessary means' to curtail Qadhafi's forces. After the resolution passed, television networks flicked over to Al-Jazeera's coverage of cheering rebel crowds in Benghazi... it seems Libya will join Bosnia and Kosovo in the pantheon of righteous intervention… the morning after the resolution passed, Libyan government forces declared a ceasefire to respect the will of the international community and - somewhat cynically - respect the lives of civilians they had few qualms about machine-gunning only days earlier.

[Rabin]

Ten of the council's 15 members voted in favor of the resolution, co-sponsored by France, Britain, Lebanon and the United States. Russia, China, Germany, India and Brazil abstained.

On September 1, 1969, a small group of military officers led by then 28-year-old army officer Mu'ammar Abu Minyar al-Qadhafi staged a coup d'état against King Idris … The Libyan Government asserts that Qadhafi currently holds no official position, although he is referred to in government statements and the official press as the "Brother Leader and Guide of the Revolution," among other honorifics. No yellow cake, no WMD, No exit, entry, … Nothing from cong but goober. Shuks, UN an the wogs are up for it, long as it is the blood of our kids to splash around.

Rab thinks probably not.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5425.htm

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/03/201131720311168561.html

[dfwgator]

“Gentlemen, we’ve got to do something to protect our phoney-baloney jobs.” - Governor William J. Lepetomaine

[Terry Mross]

If it was Christians rebelling against Ghadaffi (sp) he’d have it made.

[VeniVidiVici]

Has there ever been five abstentions on a passing resolution?

[Smokin' Joe]

...it seems Libya will join Bosnia and Kosovo in the pantheon of righteous intervention...

Which leads one to look for the reason he is wagging the dog.

I see no gain for the US except in a rapid resolution of the conflict.

The rebels are backed by the Muslim Brotherhood, AlQaida, Hamas, and Khadaffi is...Kahdaffi, replete with a history of being involved in the Pan Am 103 bombing, but who gave up his WMDs later.

Tough to pick a lesser evil there, and if the UN is for it, I can't say that gives me any confidence that we should be involved.

[null and void]

“Do Nothing” is the occupier of our White House’s strategy...

[odds]

The same UN that recently made way for the Mullahs’ regime in Iran to join its Commission on the Status of Women’s Rights?

Britain & France instigated this military action & co-sponsored it along with Lebanon (so far says volumes). Obama administration followed. I can not believe it is for humanitarian reasons - for them that’s a peripheral issue. These people may win some credibility if they came clean w/ the public instead of BSing. Integrity, however, is something they’ll always lack.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Maybe it's time for conservatives to organize anti-war protests. Why should the leftists have all the fun?

[buccaneer81]

“Gentlemen, we’ve got to do something to protect our phoney-baloney jobs.” - Governor William J. Lepetomaine

Spot on.

[DeaconRed]

The only strategy ZERO has is to get reelected.
I am still scratching my head as to how he got in in the first place.
Not sure we can survive another 2 years. 6 NO WAY.