MQ, and his sons pincer movement, against the Libyan rebels, made the Obama administration look weak in the Middle East. The Saudi's reaction, was to stage a brutal crackdown in Bahrain.
The U.S., does not want Tehran stepping in to back Shiites in Bahrain or Saudi Arabia.
Obama's telephone conversation with the Saudi king, was that Obama asked for a "political process as the only way to peacefully address the legitimate grievances of Bahrainis and to lead to a Bahrain that is stable, just, more unified and responsive to its people," according to Jay Carney, the White House press secretary.
Probably, the only reason MQ, survived the last U.S. attack on his life, in 1988, was that the former prime minister of Italy, warned MQ, about the impending attack.
NYT, Friday, March 18, 2011
Wash.--- "There once was no American institution more hostile to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's pariah government than the Central Intelligence Agency, which had lost its deputy Beirut station chief when Libyan intelligence operatives blew up Pan Am Flight 103 above Scotland in 1988.
In recent years, the CIA has been closely tethered to MQ's intelligence service as it hunts for information about operatives of AQ IN North Africa.
The CIA faces questions about whether such ties blinded it to undercurrents of dissent and may now damage America's standing with emerging democratic governments."
obama is blundering all over the place.
he has no business sticking us into the libya situation, especially after all his "end the wars" bullshit he ran his three year presidential campaign on.
I'm not against us going into libya.
I'd be all for it if we were going in to kick fucking ass, kill leatherface, then hand the libyans the country and say "here you go, sovereign democracy with a side of liberty. If you go sharia and become hotbed for terrorism we'll come back and kill you a lot."
I'm beginning to think some of us folks on here gots some anger issues.Originally Posted by Byte Stryke
Oh...but I'm good with that.
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well, if you look at Iraq, Granted that wasn't a great deal and we should have finished it the first time OR stayed the hell out of it the second time.
Everyone is crying "human rights violations", "oh the Humanity", "Someone should do something","Oh Please free us from Oppression."
So we go in, Kick ass, Topple the regime, start elections and the country turns to shit.
The same people we "liberated" are planting IEDs and sniping our troops all because some prophet forgot to name a successor.
WTF!?
SO yeah, Since obama decided we are going to liberate Libya, I Say Fuck it, we are Balls deep on the fat lady, they have pictures and we can't deny it.
Might as well see it through.
BUT
If this one turns to ass-cheese over something that equates to being as insignificant as protestant vs Catholic I Say fuck it, Civilians and innocents get out while you can, Paving begins tomorrow.
Whats another 3mill a day. we have a printing press.