Why Libya?
As an interested student of world events, I am mystified at what the USA has done in Libya. Libya did not, at present, constitute a threat to this country. Qaddafi had voluntary ended his pursuit of nuclear weapons when he saw us take action against Saddam Hussein. Since then he has mostly kept a low profile, with the minor exception of welcoming back the Lockerbie bomber back home. The demonstrators in Egypt did make significant gains and eventually got Mubarak to leave with our approval. The subsequent uprisings in Iran, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Arab Emirates and Libya were mostly surprising and destabilizing. The next thing of which I am aware, we are calling for Qaddafi to leave, and subsequently are launching cruise-missiles at him, utilizing a no fly zone and warning him not to fire at his people. He posed no threat to this country, yet we are hostile toward Libya. There were other areas that were more in our interest, Iran for one. Iran threatens us, has supported fighters in Iraq, continues to ignore the UN request to stop it's nuclear program, targets us as the "Great Satan", keeps hostages and has fired on it's people during the uprising. Iran would be an understandable target. Why Libya?
posted by Marcel at
3:06 PM
2 Comments:
I'll tell you why Libya. In his first two years as president Obama has consistently coddled our enemies (China, Russia, Iran etc.) and stiff armed our friends (England, Israel, Egypt etc.). He believes the US and her allies are evil Muslim hating, imperialists and her enemies are justified. So he predictably threw Mubarak under the bus and he did not support the Iranian rebels last year. He is thinking Qaddafi is getting too friendly with the US and the Libyan rebels will probably form a Muslim theocracy ala Iran if they succeed. He IS very consistent.
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John Beauregard, at 2:44 PM
Yes, I see what you mean. When Qaddifi gave up his nuclear ambitions he went up a notch in American eyes. He could be counted on not to become a large threat to the U.S. and this did not fit into Obama's curtsy to our enemies.
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Marcel, at 3:19 PM
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