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Africa North
Obama tells MSM Mooslim rebels could be supplied with weapons
2011-03-30
Telegraphing from The Telegraph
Barack Obama said that the US was looking at all its slippery slope options at this point but stressed the shared cockup international nature of the measures against Libya, such as the enforced but thusfar ineffective no-fly zone.

Speaking at the Foreign Office in Britain, presidential hopeful - so bad she can taste it Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, suggested it would be legal to arm, train, advise the rebels.

"It is our interpretation that [UN Security Council resolution] 1973 amended or overrode the absolute prohibition which the US originally initiated on arms to anyone in Libya, so that there could be a legitimate transfer of arms if the US a country should choose to do that," she said.

William Hague, the foreign secretary, also refused to rule out the possibility of oil for arms arming rebels.

When asked about the decision he said only: "It was not on the agenda for discussion. It is not part of any agreement today but most certainly will be tomorrow or the next."
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  both of whose only mission for the military, is to promote open gayness in uniform. (uh, war? What's war?)
Posted by: Pearl Whusoque4619   2011-03-30 17:44  

#7   It is just an ad hoc series of events that somebody in the administration whips out with no serious thought.

When you have a Junior Senator occupying the Oval Office and anti-Military Liberal Hen Hawk over the state department, both of whose only mission for the military, what do you expect?

Her Thighness is now meeting in London to form a Libyan government out of rag tag rebels who are high-tailing it out of the Qadaffy kill zones.
Posted by: Pearl Whusoque4619   2011-03-30 17:42  

#6  Operation A Series Of Unfortunate Events.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2011-03-30 17:20  

#5  This whole op is insane. They never had a plan, they never developed anything. It is just an ad hoc series of events that somebody in the administration whips out with no serious thought. When you take a plan that is dogsh*t from the beginning, and you examine it in detail, it is still dogsh*t, but worse.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2011-03-30 17:10  

#4  I thought Congressional Democrats tried to hang Ronald Reagon on arms for some rebels once, the contras.
Posted by: Unemp the Obscure7702   2011-03-30 13:51  

#3  What kind of arms? Anti-tank mines and advanced anti-tank missiles? Gonna train these guys to use a TOW or Javalin? What about the artillary, what kind of arms will trump that short of their own artillary? Give'em some SAMs then fly some close air support - oops sorry about that A-10 or C-130, still practicing you know.

And why stick around and use them and die, when they could just...walk. Sneak off, head off south, sell a couple of weapons and retire nicely, call it Operation 2 Fast 2 Furious and act shocked when this stuff shows in other theatres.

I undertand that some systems may have some safety features, but like that tablesaw which stops when it detects flesh I have to behave as if it doesn't becuase my hand is not worth being careless.

There is a hussle in this.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2011-03-30 12:41  

#2  And that strategy worked sooooo well some 20-30 years after we did it in Afghanistan.
Posted by: DarthVader   2011-03-30 11:51  

#1  It appears the rebels are a rabble not a military force. They lack competent military leadership at all levels.

All that weaponry will do is make them a well armed rabble. They will continue to be defeated quickly by any organized and trained military unit unless the rabble vastly outnumbers the military or mercenary.
Posted by: The Other Beldar   2011-03-30 10:46  

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