Posted on 03/12/2011 9:26:55 PM PST by GVnana
Several thousand Libyan women marched through the streets of rebel-held Benghazi on Saturday, demanding a no-fly zone to stop Moamer Kadhafi from bombing rebel fighters.
"No-fly zone! No-fly zone!" chanted the crowd in English and in unison, waving Libyan flags and flashing victory signs as they marched along the seafront corniche in the country's rebel-held second city.
Students, mothers, grandmothers, children and toddlers walked hand in hand, most of them wearing headscarves and some with flags painted on their cheeks and Libyan flags wrapped around their foreheads, bandana-style.
They held up framed photographs of male relatives killed since the uprising began in mid-February and banners scrawled with slogans such as: "Is oil more expensive than the blood of our sons?"
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Are we ignoring another Iranian uprising?
“Are we ignoring another Iranian uprising?”
Do we know who’s leading the opposition? I heard Al Qaida may be involved. If that’s the case I’ll take crazy Kaddafy.
We better be sure we know who we’re helping before we jump in.
Gov. Palin called for this two weeks ago. European and Arab leaders also support it. Even Bill Clinton supports it. Now the Libyan rebels are asking for it. The only one who doesn’t want a no-fly zone is Ghaddafi. Yet Obama plays golf, yucks it up with his Journolist buddies, and plans his trip to South America where he will again apologize for his predecessors. Such a great leader we have. s/
Not even Amadinejad turned this kind of weaponry on the citizenry.
islam is a death cult attempting to brainwash Americans.
Europe and Arabs support it. And if we do it, a year from now, they’ll be condemning the capitalist cowboys who killed the babies.
Memories are short.
The most insidious and audacious infiltrator is that jasser guy. He stands on his head and spits wooden nickels to lure his listener into believing his childish lies. That man is in deep cover and spearheading the political invasion of the U.S. It is extremely rare - extremely - to find a muslim who embraces Jews, for example. And even if they do, that can be viewed by jihadists as a tactical lie. Now we have our first muslim member of congress...
This is not about race, ethnicity or nationality. Hindus, Jews and believing (not professing but unbelieving) Christians get along like civilized people. But introduce the concept of islam and hmmm... you have that little old call to killing infidels that has been around since the 7th century. islam is the only group that has a policy of killing or subjugating everyone else which is not the work of lone madmen, but the standard doctrine of most of it’s leaders. Yes, Virginia, the 70% figure is probably too low.
Try reading the wikipedia entry on Battle of Tours; even though so many people question it’s politics, it still gives one a quick review of the situation that quite clearly spells out what jihad was then, and it’s plain as the hand in front of one’s face that jihad is the same today. Just search for “doctrine of jihad”.
As the kids say... duh.
we SHOULD prevent a massacre, because that's what we do.
No good deed ever goes unpunished though.
In an astonishing display of unity, the Arab League has voted unanimously to ask the UN to promote a no-fly-zone.
I’ve got a great idea to resolve the problems in Libya.
Instead of the Muslim Brotherhood just instigating unrest, why don’t they put their necks on the line and go fight with the freedom fighters?
Why do other people have to die, so the MB can waltz in and wrestle power away from the people who bled for it?
Yeah, and in what will be another shocking display of unity, the Arab League will condemn anyone who actually does it.
These people have their towels wrapped too tight.
Why don’t the Arab countries put up the No Fly zone, they have been equipped with some of the best fighters money can buy. I’m getting a little tired of defending these people that hate us.
“Are we ignoring another Iranian uprising?”
Are you putting this in the context of 2009 or 1979? We won`t know until it all shakes out, but we no longer have the ability or resources to handle yet another long-term deployment.
Americans demonstrated in 2008 they don`t want to be the big dog on the block anymore. Hope. Change. Kumbaya.
No, thanks. Not one drop more of American blood for arab muslim filth. Those creatures will act like they`re clamoring for our help one minute, then lay IEDs the next.
A massacre? More like a culling of the herd.
Let them have a go at each other and grab the popcorn.
Arab muslims are not worth American blood.
Thank you. I was thinking of 2009. It is difficult to know the context, isn’t it?
No invasion please. Just bomb the hell out of Ghaddafi’s compound and shoot down his planes. We don’t want the Islamist extremists to have the planes anyway after Ghaddafi is finished.
This isn’t a case of “If you break it, you own it.” The rebels have already broken it and we would just be getting some pay back for Ghaddafi’s terrorism.
Remeber sunni al-qaida is against shiite Iran too. Should we then support the ayatollahs just because al-qaida is against them? I think not.
I disagree with the “we won`t own it” assumption. These ops tend to take on a life of their own. A case in point is Somalia...initially, we went there to feed the folks. All fine...
THEN, the conflict devolved into a hodge-podge of warlords and their followers shooting at all the others to gain the upper hand. We thought we could dodge all that, because we on a humi mission...
THEN, some lined up with us and some against us.
THEN, we decided our chief enemy was the warlord, Mohammad Farah al-Aided. He began to grab all the foreign aid for himself and his followers. Clinton decided he should be stopped... under the U.N. flag, of course...
THEN, our mission morphed into one of hunting al-Aided down.
THEN, after a series of bungled raids came Blackhawk Down. 18 of our Rangers slaughtered on the streets..one drug through the streets of Mogadishu.
So, the goal...our definition of success in a Libya op... is getting some revenge against Gaddafi while hopefully denying the follow-on regime some aircraft that easily be replaced by stuff from the Chinese?
THAT`S our incentive????
And, of course, all this hopefully going off smoothly... with 0bama as CinC?
Pass.
It’s not a question of support. If you have two choices, one is annoying and the other is a murderer and is after you, I’ll go with annoying. Remember we were discussing whether we should support the rebels.
The question wasn’t whether we should support Iran or al Qaida, both of whom want to eliminate us. Given that, I say neither, in fact we should fight both.
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