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2011-03-15 Africa North

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Posted by Fred 2011-03-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Therefore, today the ball is in the court of the international community, which must carry out its duty to protect the people of Libya from the tyranny that it is being subjected to at the hands of the regime.

A win-win scenario - calling for action, and knowing it'll never happen in time.

Why doesn't the mighty Arab League impose a no-fly zone? Because Arabs would be killing Arabs?

Posted by Bobby 2011-03-15 05:57|| 2011-03-15 05:57|| Front Page Top

#2 What's not to like for OPEC? The price of oil is climbing daily.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-03-15 06:32|| 2011-03-15 06:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Lotsa of good reasons not to intervene, but you know you've got a problem when the Arab League is more decisive than the commander in chief.

Posted by Matt 2011-03-15 12:55|| 2011-03-15 12:55|| Front Page Top

#4 In Paris, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe suggested in a radio interview that events on the ground in Libya have already outpaced diplomatic efforts. A final communique after a two-day meeting in Paris of G-8 foreign ministers warned of "dire consequences" if Gadhafi did not honor the Libyan people's claim to basic rights, freedom of expression, and representative government, but top diplomats from some of the world's biggest powers deferred to the U.N. Security Council to take action.

"If we had used military force last week to neutralize some airstrips and the several dozen planes that they have, perhaps the reversal taking place to the detriment of the opposition wouldn't have happened," Juppe told Europe-1 radio. "But that's the past."

Posted by tu3031 2011-03-15 13:17|| 2011-03-15 13:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Lotsa of good reasons not to intervene, but you know you've got a problem when the Arab League is more decisive than the commander in chief.

My guess is that the Arab League is saying these things because the Libyan rebels are popular with al-Jazeera and Western reporters, which has carried over into Arab public opinion. In the background, however, it wouldn't surprise me if Arab government were actually helping Gaddafi with money and supplies. Why help the troglodytes of the Ikhwan gain power? (Note that the al Saud family used the Ikhwan to gain power and then crushed them, after the Ikhwan staged an abortive effort to conquer British-ruled Iraq and Kuwait in the 1920's, bringing upon the Saudis the specter of British retaliation).

Posted by Zhang Fei 2011-03-15 16:15|| 2011-03-15 16:15|| Front Page Top

#6 In the background, however, it wouldn't surprise me if Arab government were actually helping Gaddafi with money and supplies.

Something that was surmised a couple of weeks ago.

Posted by Pappy 2011-03-15 21:35|| 2011-03-15 21:35|| Front Page Top

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