Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook confirmed to reporters today that there is a “small” presence of US ground troops in Libya, trying to establish contact with various militias and other factions to “get a better sens4e of who the players are,” and “who might be worthy of US support.”
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joe Dunford confirmed late last week that the US is planning to attack ISIS in Libya, and int3ends to announce a formal decision to that effect in the next few weeks, but the conspicuous lack of allies on the ground has raised doubts about how the US would try to copy the model of their Iraq and Syria wars onto Libya.
The US has launched some airstrikes against targets inside Libya, though Gen. Dunford insisted he wants the US to do “more,” amounting all told to “decisive military action” against ISIS, who has a presence on Libya’s central coast.
Despite Cook’s suggestion that the US is vetting groups to find someone “worthy,” in all likelihood the bigger challenge is going to be to find somebody half-way credible that might be willing to work with the US. In Libya, most factions are very local, and the few with nationwide ambitions don’t have a great track record of getting things done.
The Pentagon seems very serious about this search for “Worthy Partners”, because DOD was totally incapable of finding those thousands of trucks in bumper to bumper convoys bringing ISIS fuel for sale in Turkey, and what about those huge ISIS armies that crossed the open desert to attack town after town. If DOD couldn´t find them before, then they obviously do need “Worthy Partners” if they want to find them in Libya.
It is clear that the Pentagon is looking for Russia.
Yes, since World War II looking for an excuse to invade and plunder Russia, the last great frontier for Empire USA in it’s quest to break all records for expansion.
All this talk about “worthy partners” is pure political newspeak pablum for the gullible American rube. For some ridiculous reason they believe they must put lipstick on this pig in order to sell it to America. They know they’ll not find truly worthy partners because they’ll not find anyone who will do it the way the US wants. Besides, the US is not interested in fighting ISIS at this time. Perhaps later but not right now – there’s too much carnage to inflict on the region yet to be done.
True, for Empire expansion requires control over both the land and the people, a degree of dominance that only a unified dictatorship can achieve, a thing impossible when so many militias have established autonomy.
EMPIRE USA — A FAKE MORALITY
For our society suffers an illusion, the fantasy that wealth is power, wealth is glory and wealth is a supremacy that gives you freedom from those with less wealth and dominance over them.
When in reality, a reverse be the case, for wealth destroys our ability to have a gentle, friendly and pacifist nature as we must use the deadly force of government against anyone who in the slightest may cause harm to our wealth. For herein resides the root cause of the standoff between Russia and USA, for both Empires are ruled by the men of High Society who own the most wealth, for their highest priority is expansion which requires establishing control over peoples and lands, which invariably brings Russia and USA into a conflict resolution mode when they are expanding in the same direction.
For wealth is the property we own above what is needed for a healthy life, which is why wealth should be outlawed. For democracy and equality can be achieved only when everyone has equal power, an impossibility until the day comes when no one owns the glory and power of wealth.
For wealth causes people to compete for greater wealth and to enrich themselves in the process upon the misery of those who have less wealth. Surely, wealth must be outlawed if there is ever to be peace between nations and in the hearts of all men.
Arabs seek worthy partners in US, Russia – and have been doing so for decades. None found yet, only supporters of oppression and dictatorship, whether in Tel Aviv or Tehran.
Russia, is it not a worthy partner to Syria, Iran, Iraq, Hezbollah and Hamas?
REPEAT OF BAD HISTORY
About three years ago, an ex-general from Libya who for years had lived next to CIA headquarters, he was funded by the CIA to the extent that he tried to blow up the Libya Parliament building, somehow gained control of the Libya Air Force and was trying to bomb the militia leaders into submission.
Does anyone remember what became of him?
It is rumored that FDR has given the most succinct definition of worthy partner for our foreign policy: “he is a bastard but he is our bastard”.