The ongoing (now NATO-led) war in Libya is moving toward its second month, and the questions about the goals and exit strategy still haven’t been answered. Indeed, officials are openly calling the war a “stalemate.”
The past week of comments from NATO have combined two pledges seemingly destined to keep the war going for years. Officials simultaneously insist that the war will continue until Gadhafi leaves office, but that he is not a target of the war.
The UN Mandate authorizing a no-fly zone explicitly ruled out the use of ground troops in Libya, and British Prime Minister David Cameron insists that position still stands. He said there was “no question” of using ground troops, but he didn’t seem happy about it.
Rather Cameron seemed to express annoyance that the restriction was there, saying it was making the war “more difficult in many ways.” AFRICOM commander Gen. Carter Ham said the US might consider using ground troops at some point.
Of course it has already been confirmed that there have been CIA ground forces in Libya for “several weeks.” Officials including Cameron have expressed concern that the addition of a formal ground occupation would harm international acceptance of the ongoing war.
US/NATO have made a choice, its about time for people around the world to understand why Obama was given the Nobel Peace price.., Libya is his doctrine. Like Jimmy Carter Iran was his doctrine.., he more believed in a fundamental “religious democracy” then a true and a meaningful democracy as socialism where banks are peoples banks and factories are peoples factories and it is the peoples power rather then bunch of saintly artists who have the last word in saying, where such regimes not only don’t feed the democracy and its process but it dose prolong the order of a dictatorial regimes.., The Iranian regime is just another example.., Muslims Brotherhood is another so is Al Queida and others are another.. These elements are the US/NATO last resort to keep their unjust and inhuman capitalistic system in tact, these elements are their last chance before a true uprising by the people and for the people in US and Europe.., if is not seen by people that doesn’t mean that is not there, it only means that is not reported by the biased media.
The Obamination told Congress the "Involvement" would be "days not weeks".
Reminiscent of Rumsfeld's "It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months," Iraq prognostication.
accidental (ha) mission creep is looking more like the media campaign of a gargoyle or conquring worm,,,,digging in, totally subverted on all fronts & cides,oo,,,meanwhile hom bout those Palestinneines,,,now thares a gateway approach,,,careful now, wouldn’t want to exspose` yer zIraqeee Af/Pak style energy security ulterior unalturisic underbelly. sub-motive
dessolve the democratic party.., there is no democracy in democratic party.., is a neo war party with a old doctrine in helping dictatorial regimes pretending that is democracy.., is fake democracy with a new idea in change.., as US democratic party been a fake one for last 60 years. To start with.., a true and a functioning democracy is need to change the old democracy.
So far as i can see the only result has been to prolong the war and create a stalemate. The war would have probably been over by now if we had minded our own business.
I wonder why a precident of a superpower could flowing with french interest. I also wonder why President Obama set him as the common enemy of muslim world and forgotten half of the blood in his body came from his father muslim from africa.
I wonder in front of governement shut down he still want to lead a war with libya which is nothing to do with US. I wonder so many things on the behavior of the president of the only superpower to day.
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I wonder why a precident of a superpower could flowing with french interest. I also wonder why President Obama set him as the common enemy of muslim world and forgotten half of the blood in his body came from his father muslim from africa.