fyi
What’s this low profile cr**. We’re running 1/3 of the missions + I’m sure we have plenty of advisors and spies on the ground. You can’[t run missions without them.
Days not weeks.......
The no fly zone leaving no rock able to get off the ground. Still will not put back bone in the ragtags. The population will kill them shortly.
We can’t have the Europeans buying oil from our suppliers, can we? gas is still gonna hit $5/gallon I bet.
the three leaders said their mandate under a United Nations Security Council resolution is to protect civilians in Libya. "It is not to remove Gadhafi by force," they wrote
The UN Security Council resolution is as such. But, no mention of their intentions or aims - which expressed by actions are clearly different.
So, what started as a "no-fly zone" has morphed into a policy of regime change.
Great. Next up, watch for the American ground troops we were told would never enter Libya... enter Libya.
It's amazing that "world's best democracies" didn't bother to do the only democratic thing here - to ask Libyans themselves what they want. This declaration is a shining example of NATO making decisions on behalf of Libyans.