One other thing about our involvement in Libya. We are out now, but Obama went to the UN and never went to our Congress except to send them a letter per the War Powers Act. Totally unconstitutional! At some point, he should have went to Congress for a joint resolution. If we go back in again as NATO will surely beg us to do, he BETTER go to Congress and the Republicans BETTER insist on it. To start a war is a political matter, therefore it belongs in the Congress. To prosecute a war belongs in the Commander in Chief’s hands and should never be political.
Wow, that's the first I've heard of it. It has been turned over to NATO, but the last time I looked probably 90% of the actual fighting force of NATO (the guys who are on the front lines) are US Servicemen and women. The only difference is that they are now taking orders from a Canadian.
We will be in Libya when I die of old age. We will be in Afghanistan for another decade. We should have gone in there in 2001 and kicked their butts and got out. Then we should have gone back in 2003 and kicked their butts and got out. Then we might have had to return in 2005 and kick their butts and got out. This nation building idea of Bush's was nuts.
Again, when the Military ordered the burning of the bibles, America lost its mission. From that point forward we have been treading water and protecting an Islamic regime that is destined to fall and be replaced by an even more repressive Islamic regime.
It's long past time we left there and let these Islamic tribal goons kill each other off. If they don't have American Troops to kill, they will be more than happy to use their bullets on their fellow countrymen. Historically when Muslims run out of Jews and Christians to kill, they invariably turn their swords on each other.
NATO is the US.
NATO has NEVER had anything other than an American Nato Commander. Currently it is Adm James Stavridis.
Go to this link: NATO is the US http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2696316/posts