Speaking some 10 days in to the war on Libya, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen today said “clearly there’s no military solution” to the conflict, echoing the slogan NATO officials have constantly trotted out to explain the continuation of the Afghan War.
NATO is poised to assume full control over the war, having agreed to do so on Sunday. The lack of any strategy for ending the war and indeed Rasmussen’s belief that no such strategy even theoretically exists does not appear to have hampered enthusiasm among a number of NATO nations for prosecuting the war, forever if need be.
“I am not going to guess,” was Rasmussen’s only answer to the question of how long the war would last and how NATO nations would tolerate the financial burden of yet another open-ended war. Some NATO officials have suggested a “90 day” plan, but as this lacks any endgame strategy itself it has been suggested to be little more than a wild guess.
Despite the firm belief that the attacks won’t accomplish whatever NATO’s goals are, the Pentagon announced 22 addition Tomahawk missile strikes over the past 24 hours. Officials did not reveal what, if anything, these missiles actually hit.
How is it possible that you get involved in a 'military situation' that has no 'military solution'? So he is admitting up front, that any cow soldiers/airmen(whatever) might perish in this little adventure are a waste and all for nothing. My gawd we are so f*cked!!
Foggy Rasmussen says, "clearly there's no military solution…?" So, WTF??? Why might NATO/US/UK/Frogs be blasting bejeepers out of Libya? Oh wait I know, mountains of expendable munitions just laying about unused and needing to be "tested." Is that the answer?
Cause you know, old Foggy buddy seems a mite vague on details.
Perhaps the NATO honchos just want to be make sure that they are spreading enough DU around for all those civilians they are 'protecting'!
Can NATO provide me and the rest of the world some estimate of the number of Libyan loyalists that have been killed by their missle and bomb attacts? Of course, such a statistic was considered to be a nuisance for the USA troops in Iraq and Afghanistan where the value of combant's lives were considered to be zero. This is the same policy foisted on the world by Israel who place little or no value on the life of a Palestinian. Does military training include courses on how to disregard and demean the lives of opponents?
According to Qaddafi himself (a world-known liar) approximately 100. Number of civilians killed by Qaddafi: 8,000.
“clearly there’s no military solution” —sure there is. Just drop a few neutron bombs on the whole country. Kill them all. Look at the bennies. No long term(usually a few weeks) radiation poisoning. Start out with fresh uninhabited sand. No muss, no fuss. A lot more "humane"(no depleted uranium ) and cheaper to boot. Think of all the lives "saved". See, this way we could move right in, start pumping the oil, liberate the gold(one of the spoils of liberation). With no real radiation, we could start building military bases w/o fear of "endangering" our troops. Come on NATO get with the program.
Europe is as brook as US is and they know it…, it is not about this man being nice and therefore suggesting no military intervention.., is about.., they cannot afford to have another war up their pants.., otherwise Rasmussen is the most right wing, resist, brutal and warmongers as Obama is.
They just play the game as good cup bad cup and they have to.., that is their only chance to get something out of their miserable pathetic life as politicians. Now Obama is threatening people to let the Oil companies lose in US to do whatever they want with offshore drillings and etc.. beware that it means higher Oil prices to punish people.., this will happen within few months and gas prices will jump to 5 – 6 dollar per gallon.., here not only he has proven that he is not a democrat but that he is the insurance man and Oil companies man to do their dirty job starting with healthcare and now oil drilling.