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2011-04-13 Africa North
EU to use military in Libya if UN gives mandate
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Posted by phil_b 2011-04-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 Now that's going to be interesting.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-04-13 01:04||   2011-04-13 01:04|| Front Page Top

#2 It will be a total clusterf*ck. The Marines may be the exception, but will doubtlessly be hamstrung by insane ROEs. Probably like Lebanon. Carry weapons but no ammo.

This thing will not bode well. Look, the EU cannot even really handle Somalia piracy.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-04-13 01:57||   2011-04-13 01:57|| Front Page Top

#3 They may be a total clusterf*ck, Alaska Paul, because Qadaffy is bound to have weapons more effective than he's used so far. There won't be a total clusterf*ck because of idiotic ROE, because there won't be any idiotic ROE. War crimes only happen in wars that International Community doesn't approve of---haven't you noticed?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-04-13 02:36||   2011-04-13 02:36|| Front Page Top

#4 I hope that this story is not true. Anything involving the EU is shite. Libya is shite, let the rag heads fight it out.
Posted by Dave UK 2011-04-13 05:32||   2011-04-13 05:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Neither China nor Russia will object with a veto? I think not.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-04-13 07:00||   2011-04-13 07:00|| Front Page Top

#6 "EUfor Libya" sounds like a bunch of musicians singing songs like USA for Africa. They could have come up with a better name. Even Operation "Bend 'em like Beckam" would have been better.
Posted by rjschwarz 2011-04-13 08:58||   2011-04-13 08:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Whatever happened to "days, not weeks." Hit its expiration date?
Posted by Matt 2011-04-13 09:47||   2011-04-13 09:47|| Front Page Top

#8 China and Russia will derive great amusement from this.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-04-13 11:49||   2011-04-13 11:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Our current Pretender-in-chief has made the same fatal mistake others have made before him -- never get into a war you don't intend to win. Also, you can't afford to fight a war "on the cheap" -- there's no such thing. You fight to win, and you fight with all the forces you have in your arsenal. Two or three days of constant ARCLIGHT strikes on Tripoli would have ended this war before it was a week old, and Kadaffy Duck would either be a hulking vegetable or toast. Now it'll probably drag out another two or three years, at very high cost in human and other treasure.
Posted by Old Patriot 2011-04-13 13:08||   2011-04-13 13:08|| Front Page Top

#10 The Euro-Inn fighting has begun. I'll give it another week or two and they'll be marching home, at each other's throats playing the blame game. It's what they've always done.
Posted by Besoeker 2011-04-13 13:18||   2011-04-13 13:18|| Front Page Top

#11 To paraphrase Stalin, how many divisions does the EU have?
Posted by Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-04-13 13:33||   2011-04-13 13:33|| Front Page Top

#12 My niece is on the Bataan. Though she's not in line to get directly in harm's way (she's an avionics tech), the idea of having her sent overseas as part of this madness rankles the hell out of me. As a commenter at Belmont Club put it: "We have no plan, and we're sticking to it."

Godspeed, Mel...
Posted by xbalanke 2011-04-13 14:12||   2011-04-13 14:12|| Front Page Top

#13 I'll give it another week or two and they'll be marching home, at each other's throats playing the blame game.

Provided Obama doesn't change his mind again.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-04-13 14:25||   2011-04-13 14:25|| Front Page Top

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