Though President Obama and other officials were talking up the possibility of the new war in Libya scaling back, that does not mean it is going to be short. Speaking today during a visit to Cairo, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates confirmed that the war in Libya is open-ended.
Gates pointed out that UN Security Council Resolution 1973, upon which the US-led war is predicated, is “not time-limited” and that he therefore thought it wasn’t reasonable to set a timeline for when the war would actually end.
“I think no one was under any illusions that this would be an operation that would last one week, or two weeks, or three weeks,” Gates insisted. More concerning is that they don’t appear to have any endgame at all.
That was the clear message from several officials over the past several days. There are no clearly defined goals, no exit strategy, no conceivable policy at all, beyond launching massive air strikes across the nation. Gates says the war will take more than weeks, but with America’s other two wars in their 9th and 10th years, respectively, one has to take the administration at its word when it talks about an open-ended war.
No endgame? Just build the damn base and be done with it.
No end?? No surprise. This makes US ongoing ,perpetual war # 3. + Why spoil the record???
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"Secretary of Defense Robert Gates confirmed that the war in Libya is open-ended."
Right. Just another open-ended run of the mill war without end. Paid for by those ever obedient Amerikan sheeple that pays all the taxes. Cause you know, war machinery am hungry and gluttonous.
Congratulations there Mr. President, you've got yourself your very own war and didn't even need to consult Congress or nothing. Nope.
Golly, Ms. Oprah must be ever so proud of her boy now. Amerika's "first black President" ever to start a war by hims very own.
Dr. Martin Luther King would spit in Obama's eye.
Air strikes accross the entire nation, even rebel held areas? This is starting to sound insane, with the radioacive fallout particles recorded in all States, and none of them exactly harmless. And unlike Chernobyl that had two explosions, one hydrogen, and another partial core explosion, the fire was extinguished the same day, and there were no other releases into the atmosphere. Unlike in Japan, where succesive explosions and smoke emmisions keep on spewing radioactive matter for days on end, releasing fast neutrons, isotopes such as iodine, cesium, strontium and even plutonium. The plumes are sent into stratosphere, landing everywhere. And if anyone tells me that the "radiation" is small, I will get sick. We need to know the isotope type and the particle count per a unit of area (it is different in Europe, vs. US). But it seems that the information will not be forthcoming, and the spike in cancers in 5 years time among kids and adults — particularly thyroid — will be explained away. Libya sounds like a good distraction.
This is actually the fourth active war in a Muslim country at this time. Let's not forget drone strikes in that fuzzy Durand-line federally administered tribal area of Pakistan. The one they don't want you to think about at all.
"There are no clearly defined goals, no exit strategy, no conceivable policy at all"….sure there is. The goal is to secure the planet for Israel, starting with every nation in the ME. Notice how Iran is surrounded. That's a strategy to go after Iran shortly, if we don't go broke first. Timing is everything.
So its the usual US military war strategy, go in without and exit plan and kill more civillians than enemies.
Since the President has had to fight two inherited wars, he needed to start his very own. You know, there's his legacy to consider in the history books.
1- USA wake up and smell the miracles that is just about to happen to your freedom.., There is not such thing as democracy exist in US nor for that matter in EU.., or if you will NATO countries.., however there is what is called a falsified democracy with a militarism regimes as option for people to chose from. Obama actually have dismantled the democratic party by not following on his promise.., question why would he do that.., from 2010 and up to date Obama been approaching the Republicans to create a one party system in US where he knows that they will be the majority when democrats and republicans become a same political party. There is no such evidence nailing the idea.., but what if is true and what if they are negotiating on the issue.
2- What I go after is the fact that lately Republicans are very quite on issues and they very well cooperating with president on almost every issues., having said that.., Obama hade a chance to create a true and functioning democracy by fulfilling his promises ending the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and implementing a universal healthcare system for everyone.., and prosecuting the Bush – Cheney gangs for war crime and etc. Isn’t it questionable that non of his rhetoric’s been done and beside if he was a true democrat then why not.., he hade the majority in both house and promised the American people when he toke the oath.
Welcome to New Babylon. Cement pouring begins at dawn. Mr. Khaddaffi was kind enough to beat the slaves into shape long enough to build New Babylon with all the amenities the TV-dinner sucking shoppers of the New World Order could possibly wish for. Profits to be split amongst the newly reprise of Britannia and its partner Goldman-Sachs, a division of Rothschild, Rothschild, Rothschild, …etc. You can just about smell the less than lifelike odor of the damp cement and see the waddling of the less than lifelike wraiths of Hollywood as they ‘strut their stuff along boulevards of shopping dedicated to the success, pride, and honor knowing that you got your fortune by stabbing your neighbors and countrymen in the back and then having your punk in the government tax them to collect even more. Maybe even catch a glimpse of the queen and her brood of less than lovely genetic throwbacks. I can’t wait.
NATO is simply another acronym wielded by the Pentagon. Gates, who you would have thought made some sense in a recent address, has revealed yet again his true colors. I hope Justin and others wake up and realize that these swine will never change unless they acquire room temperature.