Posted on 03/17/2011 2:19:25 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Freshman Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) lashed out at the Obama administration's Libya policy on Thursday, saying that the United States looked weak and naïve in hoping that the U.N. Security Council would act to protect the Libyan people.
"The United States, quite frankly, looks weak in this endeavor, it looks unwilling to act," he said at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Thursday, highlighting that Britain, France, the Arab League, and the Libyan opposition are all calling on the United States to support stronger measures to stop Libyan leader Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi's assault on rebels and civilians.
"The president has specifically said that Qaddafi must go but has done nothing since then except for having general debates about it for a week and a half or two," Rubio said. "Congressional leadership has strongly called for a no-fly zone and nothing has happened."
The stance of Rubio, the committee's newest Republican, it exactly opposite of the committee's top Republican Richard Lugar (R-IN), who said at the same hearing that a no fly zone was not a good idea and would require a Congressional declaration of war.
Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Bill Burns emphasized that the United States was pushing for stronger action at the Security Council, with new resolution coming as early as today. ....
But Rubio was extremely skeptical that the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council would endorse military intervention in Libya.
"To say that we're pressing the United Nations and that's energetic action is to basically say... that the United States may feel strongly about something but we're not doing anything that the Chinese and Russians don't agree to." ....
(Excerpt) Read more at thecable.foreignpolicy.com ...
the cowboys are gone
No more euro sneering at men like Bush and Cheney and the “neocolonialist knuckle draggers” who would have bombed a frenzied despot like Qadaffi into susnet
Now the euro-and Un socialists have what they asked for for the past 20 years, a humble weakling apologist America, standing in the crowd with the rest of the world nations, all arguing about who takes the first step and in what direction
Its probably just as well that America not get involved in the Libyan Civil War.
But Obama’s blustering against Gaddafi followed up by no action leaves neither side in this war with any love for the United States, regardless of who wins the conflict.
“President should have STFU if he wasn’t going to commit himself to action.”
You are right about that but we still need to stay out of it. (IMO).
But he didn’t STFU and Im trying to let people see how dangerous that is and how it weakens us as a nation
“But he didn’t STFU and Im trying to let people see how dangerous that is and how it weakens us as a nation”
IMO just the fact that we have a possible illegal alien President with two totally separate names (Barack Obama/Barry Soetoro) and a social security number from a state he never lived in not only weakens us as a nation but scares the heebie jeebies out of me.
Watch Rubio.
Thanks Tailgunner Joe.
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