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2011-03-30 Africa North

Obama tells MSM Mooslim rebels could be supplied with weapons

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Posted by Besoeker 2011-03-30 08:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#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|| 2011-03-30 10:46|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2011-03-30 11:51|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2011-03-30 12:41|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2011-03-30 13:51|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2011-03-30 17:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Operation A Series Of Unfortunate Events.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-03-30 17:20|| 2011-03-30 17:20|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2011-03-30 17:42|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2011-03-30 17:44|| Front Page Top

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