After over a decade of NATO missions in Afghanistan and Kosovo, the top levels of America’s European military alliance are eager to end the Libyan war and to avoid nation-building responsibilities.
“We must end this Libyan business quickly,” one senior military officer told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. “We just cannot afford this proliferation of missions which just drag on and on. One needs to finally end.”
Facing drained resources from the violent quagmire in Afghanistan and potential defense budget cuts as a result of struggling economies, even NATO’s top military brass are weary of empire building in Libya. Many have been arguing for a United Nations peacekeeping force to take over now that Muammar Gadhafi has been ousted.
Even NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who usually praises NATO’s commitment to interventionism and nation-building, has made clear that any follow-up mission in Libya must be dealt with by the UN.
And the UN just may take that responsibility. A newly proposed resolution would establish a United Nations Support Mission in Libya for at least three months, assist the Transitional National Council, unfreeze assets of two major oil companies, and lift a ban on flights by Libyan aircraft.
NATO’s leadership remains enthusiastic about finishing their mission in Afghanistan, but early hints of war weariness are developing there too as the insurgency remains as strong as ever, violence is marking record highs, and the Taliban look to be gaining ground.
As was seen in Libya, NATO’s military backbone lies with the United States, as even a so-called “backseat” to Libya operations has meant a primarily US-led war. And it is apparently so too with the preference for occupation and nation-building, as the commitment and capability for long-term conflicts apparently requires American willingness too.
Hahahaahahahahahahahahaha….pussies!
So the fun is over. The initial bombing, the destructionn of a county's infrastructure and the relocation of thousands of its people is all that NATO and the USA has the staying power for. Well let me tell you, that to think you can pass off your mess to the sum of other countries in the UN is beyond belief. We didn't have a vote in your destructive plans. The costs of destroying any country for another's country's rationale should fall squarely on those countries that did the destruction. The cost of putting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya back together will probably bankrupt the USA, the UK and much of Europe. Sorry boys, that the cost of empire hubrus with little foresight. But I suspect that those responsible will walk away.
You can be sure the old colonial powers will turn to the United Nations to fund the repairs. They were not willing to follow the rules of the United Nations when several members of the United Nations elected to bomb another member of the United Nations. Lets face it there is no reason to believe that there is a United Nations since it is so easy to get NATO to start wars and the USA veto any actions that israel does not like. Let save some money and dump the United Nations and there never was any reason to have a NATO. If we cut the cost of the United nations, NATO and funding Israel we would have a good start on paying off the national debt.
I don't know about US/NATO "nation building responsibilities." US/NATO is much more adept at 'nation destruction' and that's a certainty.
NATO Weary of Nation-Building–try instead NATO Weary of being exposed as USA's sidekick Empire-Builders
The old colonial powers now called NATO should have remembered that war always bring in the citizens. If France and England did not have enough problem with immigrants wait till they start showing up by the thousands from the bombing. The old colonial powers will be forced to spend billions rebuilding Libya a new nation under shari law. I read that it will take over two years go get the oil back on line and that is without the remaining former owners of the oil just watching. YOu can bet dollars to donuts that they will blow up the oil ability and mostly funded by the oil industry which is happy with the higher price of oil caused by lack of supply. Stupid.
Oh, the usual thing. The banksters, operating through their "corporate" stooges, will get no-bid contracts to "rebuild". They will do this by extorting massive sums of fiat money from their government stooges on the promissory notes nailed to the backs of the citizens as future taxation. Of course, the banksters themselves, they don't pay taxes; they get "bailouts" instead.
Nothing new here. Been happening for, say, two hundred years or so. Difference is only this: used to be, only a handful of historians and intellectuals had the scam figured out. Now, a temporary situation, the relatively "uncontrolled" internet has allowed a few million studious souls to see into the process at a little more depth than the banksters like. Thus, the endless bullshite about "conspiracy theorists" and so on.
Oh, don't worry, reactionaries. Every day the "internet" becomes more controlled, more "corporate", and more banksteristic. Sad. Sad but true.
guts and grit fogie wants to take his ball and go home, probably wants to shave his eyebrows to see more clearly
NATO wants out of Libya? Wow! They could have fooled me.
Didn't this article appear in The Onion?
Tottaly desroy a country that should have never been attacted to leave the citizens to die in there destroyed country thanks to Nato Americas puppet.Israel has more control over America than American ciyizens.Against the law the constitution time for a full rebelion by the millions and millions.350 million people in America need to stand for the law the founding fathers fought so hard to put in place.Fight for what is right and get rid of the tyranicle government that the law allowes the time for action was about 100 years ago but better late than never.In the American cival war brave Americans died for what was right about or more than 750 thousand died.Better to die for what is right than die as a coward.On your death bead would you not want to now you did what was right and not what bwas easy.Wake up the government is tyranicle and taking away your constitutional rights.
YOU BROKE IT- YOU BOUGHT IT.
Posted already never showed getting used to it.Destroy a country in a cival war were 90 persent of the civilians were loyal to Gadafi.Now the country is destroyed and people have no place to go and just leave them to suffer.Ever seen such crule countrys aside from Israel.Can't wait for the blowback witch is more than deserved to say the least.The world is waking up and these actions will face the chance of war with most of the world joining togeather if smart before its them its being done to.