Does ANY rational person think a no-fly zone in Libya at this point will stop Gadhafi from cleansing his country of those who are attempting to take back their country? Think about that! Does he have lots and lots of tanks? Well, YEAH! Does he have lots and lots of troops 'willing' to do his bidding? Well, YEAH! Does he have lots and lots of rockets? Well, YEAH!
QUESTION: will a no-fly zone stop Gadhafi from using ANY of those weapons/resources? Heck NO! A no-fly zone ONLY keeps PLANES from flying! HELLO!?!? What we and the UN have just done makes me sick.
Gadhafi has ALL the military resources he needs to do the 'cleansing' he promised. At this LATE point in the process he no longer needs his planes! HELLO!
We wasted so much time getting Daddy UN to okay a no-fly zone that, now, it cannot possibly accomplish what the no-fly zone was intended to prevent ... ie, widespread 'cleansing' of Gadhafi's own citizens.
I don't know what value you think the UN is but to me it's a huge waste of time and money. The UN is totally incapable of establishing peace anywhere. Either they dither away so much time that it becomes too late OR they put so many restrictions on a peace-keeping process that it's pointless. Take Kosovo and other places where "UN Peacekeepers" are on record just standing around watching people kill each other because they don't have approval to use deadly force.
What the UN just did wrt Libya is a complete joke. And the joke is really on the Libyans who have died in the meantime. America's leaders have just shown despots around the world that they can do pretty much anything they want because we won't do anything unless Daddy UN says when and how we can by which time the effort is completely moot.
President Obama just said to Gadhafi, "All attacks on civilians must stop". That must have Gadhafi quaking in his designer boots! I'm sure he's really nervous about that. After all, President Obama might write another letter to him being even more firm.
Good Grief! Despots around the world now KNOW beyond a doubt that they can do whatever they want and we will do nothing significant to stop them. This is not good for America nor world peace. When you keep telling bullies and despots to stop and live in peace yet do nothing to enforce it, they just up the ante. When all you do is TALK about peace with bullies and despots you get the OPPOSITE result from what you want. Apparently our leaders have learned NOTHING from actual repeated history, not only in the general case regarding despots but in the specific case of middle east history. This is what they do and they don't care what we say or think. They only understand a good punch in the nose, like all bullies.
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