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| Analysts: More Libyan bloodshed could prompt U.S., NATO intervention |
| 2011-02-25 |
| If the U.S. military were to intervene in an increasingly chaotic Libya, it would most likely be part of a NATO action in which Libyan bloodshed has reached a humanitarian crisis, analysts said Thursday. Gee, that shouldn't take long at all. As reports emerged Thursday about deadly clashes between leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces and anti-government protesters in the town of Zawiya near Tunisia, analysts highlighted how Gadhafi has already pledged to fight a rebellion to martyrdom. Military intervention "is something which I hope doesn't happen, but it looks as though at some point that it should happen," said Simon Henderson, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "What's an acceptable number of civilian deaths? I don't know. Choose your figure," Henderson said. "At the very least, instead of having a casualty list certainly in the hundreds, possibly in the thousands, we don't want a casualty list numbering in the tens of thousands, or 100,000 or so." The numbers guarantee that Gadaffy will get away with it. Now if I were in charge: We would threaten Gadaffy's existence if he touched one hair on any foreigner's head. Some rented thug would touch a hair on a foreigner's head somewhere. We would overfly the country about a zillion times and plink every tank and heavy machine-gun site we could find, including any resources related to the elite guards or Gadaffy himself. We could use twitter to get folks to turn in places where they were getting shot at and go bomb anything that looks bad there, too. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #2 ION PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > GADDAFI MAY USE CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS AGZ ESCLAATING LIBYA UNREST. and * SAME > IFF THE SAUDIS PROTEST,THE WORLD IS IN TROUBLE. big Big Big BIG B-I-G BBBIIIIIGGGG TRIBBLE. * SAME > MIDDLE EAST UPRISINGS: AL-QAEDA'S MAKE-OR-BREAK MOMENT? VERSIES * PRAVDA > [US-controlled,armed] TERRORISTS TRYING TO DESTROY LIBYA, like it did YUGOSLAVIA. ARTIC = LIBYUH is a SUCCESSFUL = WORKING SOCIALIST STATE under attack by the US via Proxies. * WAFF > ISRAEL AND IRAN: A CALL FOR NEW PRIORITIES. ARTIC = Author calls for IMMEDIATE, PREEMPTIVE, NATO-SANCTIONED AIR STRIKES AGZ IRAN'S NUCPROGS. Abhorred or otherwise regarded as unnecessary or destabilizing during the US-Soviet Cold War, PREEMPTION = PREEMPTIVE MILSTRIKE may prove to be the method of first resort by the UNO + World Powers in the age of Globalism + Islamist Nuc Proliferation [advent of Regional, Global Nuclear, Other WMDS Militancy-Terror threat(s)]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-02-25 23:41 |
| #1 When the stories flowed out of Somalia to begin with I knew the media was trying to goad the US to intervene, I also knew that as soon as we'd been there a while their next move would be to get us out with shame. Do not let the media dictate the national interests, particularly in foreign affairs. We are no longer in the position to afford commitments anywhere at anytime. Choose wisely and, like every other friggin nation on this planet, in our own interests. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-02-25 16:09 |