Posted on 01/03/2015 3:49:10 PM PST by DeaconBenjamin
Islamist militants have abducted 20 Egyptian Christians in Libya in recent days, a source close to the government said Saturday.
The source said the Ansar al-Sharia militia had kidnapped 13 of them on Saturday in the coastal city of Sirte and the rest of them there over the past few days.
The identity of those kidnapped was not immediately clear, except that they were said to be Coptic Christians.
Prayers for them.
You can’t blame him, he was golfing at the time.
I can't fault him on Libya. McCain and Graham were giving him a ton of pressure to intervene in Libya. Libya wasn't Obama - it was pure McCain and Graham. Now Egypt's MB takeover - that was Obama all the way.
A good reason to send in the Egyptian Tanks and set things right in Lybia!
“”Libya wasn’t Obama - it was pure McCain and Graham””
You can’t make up your own facts about Libya....Obama is the one who said the residents of Benghazi were about to be slaughtered thus ordered the intervention....Where did McCain or Graham get the power to intervene there?
The few leftist relatives I speak to about this topic, either flat out deny it, or feel they are getting their just deserts because christians are oppressors
I recall Hillary as chomping at the bit to join in, and France was really pushing the issue.
Gadhafi must have been comforted to hear the president’s words, Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, said following Obama’s televised address.
“If we tell Gadhafi, ‘Don’t worry, you won’t be removed by force,’ I think that’s very encouraging to Gadhafi,” McCain said, after Obama delivered a speech explaining U.S. intervention in Libya.
McCain said the president’s words were “puzzling” because Obama has previously said that U.S. policy is for Gadhafi’s ouster.
“The reason why we wage wars is to achieve the results of a policy that we state,” McCain said.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, agreed with McCain, his felllow member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
“The goal of this country is to replace Gadhafi,” Graham told CNN.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., urged a new level of allied involvement Sunday, calling for the U.S. and NATO to launch direct strikes on Qaddafi’s inner circle in Tripoli.
Like Graham, McCain suggested the U.S. military’s AC-130 and A-10 aircraft should be employed, to support a Libyan rebel force that is “badly outgunned.” He praised the Obama administration for authorizing Predator drones, but said, “I really fear a stalemate.”
McCain and Graham spoke on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Obama demands regime change in Libya
With air strikes apparently imminent against the forces of Muammar Gaddafi, America faces a simple question: why is the U.S. going to war in Libya? There may be good reasons, even compelling ones. But so far the answers from the Obama administration are shockingly opaque, contradictory and incomplete.
Obama explained his decision in an East Room statement this afternoon. He said Gaddafi was suppressing his people and that “left unchecked, we have every reason to believe that Gaddhafi would commit atrocities against his people. Many thousands could die. A humanitarian crisis would ensue. The entire region could be destabilized, endangering many of our allies and partners. The calls of the Libyan people for help would go unanswered. The democratic values that we stand for would be overrun. Moreover, the words of the international community would be rendered hollow.”
Hillary Clinton said this morning that regime change—Gaddafi’s departure from power—was also a key U.S. demand, but Obama did not include regime change in his list of “non-negotiable” terms. “All attacks against civilians must stop,” Obama said, “Gadhafi must stop his troops from advancing on Benghazi; pull them back from Adjadbiya, Misrata and Zawiya; and establish water, electricity and gas supplies to all areas. Humanitarian assistance must be allowed to reach the people of Libya.” Non-compliance by Gaddafi, Obama said, would result in military action. He said the U.S. would provide “unique capabilities” as “part of an international coalition.”Why Are We Going to War with Libya?
Vietnam killed 60K of our troops. We normalized relations anyway. With the government that contained cabinet members who were complicit in killing Americans. Same thing with Germany and Japan, whose populations were complicit in not only killing GI's, but committing large scale atrocities against civilians and POW's in conquered lands. They knew nothing. Yeah, sure...
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