There is already considerable opposition to the Obama Administration’s war in Libya, fueled mainly by his lack of goals and the complete lack of debate before the war began. With the first week of conflict coming to an end, President Obama is now under pressure to define the exit plan.
NATO, which has assumed leadership of the campaign as of Friday, says they are planning for a 90 day mission. What comes after that is anyone’s guess, and the administration hasn’t been clear at all on what it intends will happen.
Indeed, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates insisted earlier in the week that there is no time limit for the war. British Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey said there is no exit strategy in place. The 90 day mission, in this context, seems extremely over-optimistic.
Rather the administration appears to have designs on keeping the no-fly zone in place more or less permanently, in the same style of the Iraq no-fly zone before the 2003 invasion. In Libya, as well, the closest thing the administration has to an end-game plan seems to be permanent escalation until the situation magically resolves itself.
SecDef Bobby Gates AND BAF Minister Nicky 'invisible' Harvey are all about magic. Watch on CNN International as Bobby and Nicky chant the magic notion- "oh-wah-tah-goo-siam!" AND PRESTO, Libyan mess-oh-rama is "magically" resolved.
"…end-game plan seems to be permanent escalation until the situation magically resolves itself."
That's a good one Mr. Jason.
Just because people in America can vote out a President every four years,if they choose to,doesn't mean that they can vote out the political machine that installs those Presidents.Republican or Democrat,both parties are controlled by the same powerful interests.The American government has no real respect for the rights of It's citizens.Make no mistake,if the people of America began rising up as those people in Syria, Libya,Egypt,the Middle East are doing,the people of America would be shot down in the streets of It's cities just like those brave folks of the Islamic world.
90 days to waste money we don't have. $10,000 an hour (fuel alone) for a twenty hour trip for B-2 Bombers out of Missouri to defeat 1970s soviet technology. All they respond to is real pressure, that is Congress, the media, and the public. Hardly anybody is buying Obama's excuse:
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/151959-freshman…
"Lawmakers from both parties have criticized Obama for not consulting Congress, but Scott’s public contention that the president purposefully waited until lawmakers left town appears to be unique.
“The president unilaterally injected us into a third country’s conflict,” Scott said.
“Why did he wait until the day after we adjourned Congress [to launch military strikes]?” Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.), the president of the 87-member GOP freshman class, said in a phone interview on Friday. “I believe that timing was intentional by the president.”
Now that the ' "Rebels " in Libya have admitted that they have al-Qaeda links what is Obama and his mob going to do??
Will they provide support and weapons to the people thay claim to have carried out the 9/11 attacks for which all these wars were started??
Maybe they should have investigated the "Rebel "movement before jumping into bed with them.
I'm sure they knew that Andron and fondly imagined they could control al-Qaeda – as per Afghanistan – but I am sure that they've screwed up hugely this time.
1- Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, the Libyan rebel leader, has said jihadists who fought against allied troops in Iraq are on the front lines of the battle against Muammar Gaddafi's regime. In an interview with the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, Mr al-Hasidi admitted that he had recruited "around 25" men from the Derna area in eastern Libya to fight against coalition troops in Iraq. Some of them, he said, are "today are on the front lines in Adjabiya".
2- This is report (Above) confirming that Muslims Brotherhood and jihadist are in Libya to fight and make Libya to yet another Iraq.., and that US did not know about it or they knew yet did not care about the matter and wanted to start another war so later they can invade and occupy Libya… So what did these three ladies Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice and Samantha Power knew about these men’s and Libyan Council,, did they know anything about who the Council were.., what they want and above all who is behind the Council helping them.., or better yet.., what Hillary Clinton was promised by Libyan Council and what did she promised them.., what I want to know is this.., when did they inform their superior.., before Hillary Clinton and Saudis hade a meeting discussing the Saudis invasion of Bahrain.., or before Hillary Clinton meetings with Muslim brotherhoods in Egypt and Paris.., or after when Hillary Clinton and Gates assured that Saudis, Kuwait and Arab Emirates will exchange the Libyan situation with Bahrain if US and UN didn’t act on Saudis invading Bahrain, Arab Emirates and Kuwaitis helping Saudis. Here I still wonder..,
3- why would these Ladies act as Libya would be in flame while Saudis and King of Bahrain were doing all the killings.., why wouldn’t they take on Israel and Israelis government atrocity toward Palstanians for so many years.
4- I guess the only alternative for US government to come up with an excuse.., which would read like this.., we don’t know if there is any war is going on in Libya.., but we are there and bombing the heck of the Libyan people to prevent the Libyan government killing its own people. And about French taking command.., well they are just trying their best to kill a Libyan jet while is an landing position. I truly honor women’s day.., is a day which every man needs to be proud for what they have achieved and are capable of.., although women’s are not paid as they pay men’s.., but about these ladies I don’t know what to say.., heck they are a exceptional academic hypocrite democrats and doing their job.
As far as the al-Qaeda connection in Libya goes, Obama's slogan seems to be: The enemy of my enemy is – my enemy.
So he eventually defines an exit plan, that means nothing. We know exit stratgies and time tables for withdrawl mean nothing to the imperial war machine.