Posted on 03/07/2014 8:40:31 AM PST by don-o
OME (Reuters) - Western countries voiced concern on Thursday that tensions in Libya could slip out of control in the absence of a functioning political system, and they urged the government and rival factions to start talking.
Two-and-a-half years after the fall of former leader Muammar Gaddafi, the oil-rich North African state is struggling to contain violence between rival forces, with Islamist militants gaining an ever-stronger grip on the south of the country.
"The situation in Libya is very worrying," French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told reporters on the margins of a conference in Rome to discuss the Libyan crisis.
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Whew....Thank goodness we had nothing to do with the change of guard in Libya.../s
Odds on another military adventure in Libya to help the “right” people...?
They’re Arabs, what do you expect?
The problem with reality is that it has it’s own time table.
“We are asking the Libyans to talk to each other and to find a stable solution,” he said.
Well, that should do it.
Muammar Gaddafi always said, if anything happened to him, the warlords would take over...not that he was any better but these people seem to live for chaos.
How many Billions do we spend on intelligence yet never know what is going on?
“What difference does it make?”
“What difference does it make now!?!”
Obama and NATO’s fault.
Obama has to have the worst foreign policy of any president.
It’s time for the flowers to bloom in the Arab spring.
Yep. I am amazed that anybody thought the “Arab Spring” would work out well for anybody but goat humping mullahs.
We’ve seen that in a lot of the Middle East that the vicious bastards in power are the only thing suppressing the mobs and providing any stability.
Sad but true.
That would be the case if he actually had one.
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