Posted on 05/07/2011 9:29:44 AM PDT by Fennie
The aerial bombardment of Libya has reached a dead end, which has intensified talk among NATO members about a possible land operation, a move that threatens to escalate massively the violence that already exists there.
The alliance's spokesman has admitted there is still little sign of progress for either side in the conflict, so there is a need for a new UN resolution to approve sending foreign troops in. In the meantime, civilian casualties from allied bombing continue to mount as fresh NATO air strikes have been heard in the Libyan capital overnight.
At a video conference with Russian students, a NATO spokesman revealed his organization's proposed solution: send in ground troops.
"The UN Security Council should adopt a new resolution on Libya. Resolution 1973 does not envisage land operations. We need a new resolution," professed James Appathurai.
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Will the Germans send troops?
No, for obvious reasons.
Will the Italians send troops?
No, because Libya was a former Italian colony and nothing will unite all Libyans against NATO more than the return of Italian forces.
Will Britain send troops?
Yes, a token; because Britain just doesn’t have the forces to send.
Will France send forces?
Yes, but only a token; because France also now has only a tiny army.
Who is going to make up the bulk of any large-scale force?
(Hint: Dial 1-800-USA)
>They need to do a better job of identifying the enemy before their airstrikes.
In my opinion, if they are dropping bombs on the rebels then they are hitting the right targets. A rabid pack of jihadists, alkada and scumlim brotherhoods do not need our help.
I would hope kadaffy decimates these future terrorists and then he himself gets eliminated. IOW, let them fight it out.
Afghanistan didn’t attack the US on 9/11.
Afghanistan didn’t attack the US on 9/11.
If you`re talking about Saddam`s “mother of all battles” statement, it was when he faced a 540K - size international force, 420K of which came out of the U.S. hide. This go-round won`t even be a 20th of that size. There`s no mandate to push his forces out of an occupied zone. Gaddafi can speak a bit more accurately about delivering hell to a small invading force.
In 1991, the country got solidly behind Ops Desert Shield and Storm, because Americans knew the mission and supported it.
No one knows this mission.
The same way Warsaw Pact provided a fig leaf of multilateralism to USSR, NATO provides fig leaf of multilateralism to US.
NATO is US. Without US, NATO does not exist.
The purpose of NATO died 20 years ago with the collapse of the Soviet Union, and NATO should have died with it.
Instead, NATO created a new reason for it's continued existence by morphing into an aggressive force and becoming involved in the Balkans "for humanitarian reasons" (It's worthwhile here to recall H.L. Mencken's words: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule"), even though no NATO country was ever attacked.
From that point on, NATO has been working off the books -- US led, with less respect for NATO's original charter than these same megalomaniacs have for the US Constitution.
In fact, all that NATO has become is a way for our executive branch to go renegade and use military force without the required Congressional permission. Clinton and GWB at least kept up the pretense of "consulting Congress". With Libya, Obama didn't even bother to pretend.
The continuation of NATO means that we the people are no longer represented in any manner in the decision for the US to go to war. The senior leadership of other countries like this too, because they don't want to have to ask permission from their constituents either on matters of war and peace. They'd rather just deal, leader to leader
IMHO, NATO has become the military arm of the corporate globalists to defend their global business interests -- answerable to no one but each other, yet sticking us with the bill for defending their (not our) interests.
Bob Beckel claimed more than a month ago that this would be over in a week.
barry´s war.
All NATO is today is, a tap on the US treasury.
Whoa. All we needed to do before this little intervention was sit back, wait, and maybe air drop some ammo to whomever ran low...
If the MIC in the white Hut waffled about the OBL op, what is he doing even considering boots on the ground?
Beckel is a dedicated political foot soldier for the Left.
>> If the MIC in the white Hut...
Moron, mutant, megalomaniac, malfeasant?
Well, maybe..... It’s difficult to believe that the first announcement of such an important shift, would be via a “video conference with Russian students.”
Muslim?
I’d be dead set against ground troops in Libya. Since NATO doesn’t actually have any grounds forces, American soldiers and equipment would be used, along with other member countries - that must not happen. We are already in to deep as it is - Libya is not our problem, it’s a civil war and if we are their just because of oil - someone should go to jail for that decision as people are dying.
The Brits and Frogs have ample resources. The Frogs have a six brigade rapid reaction force. The Brits have, besides the Royal Marine Bde, 1st Para, the SAS/SRS Reg’ts., and at least one deployable Division in Germany. Libya is quite reachable from Europe and with Benghazi in rebel hands, no opposed landing would be necessary.As Q’adafy’s forces haven’t been able to crush the amateur rebels, I don’t think the pros of Britain and France would face much difficulty routing the Libyan forces. Of course if an Iraqi type insurgency were to develop I doubt the French and British populations have the staying power to put it down.
- I disagree with your undeniable fact.
Afghanistan did not attack the U.S.
Only in a highly technical sense. Al-Qaida operated freely in the country with the complete cooperation and support of the Afghan government, even though al Qaeda had already attacked the United States Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the USS Cole among other acts of war.
Essentially, Afghanistan DID attack the US, and more than once.
The mission is, get Obama Re-elected.
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