A conflict that does not get much attention these days in the media is Libya……occasionally there is a quick reference to the rise of ISIS in North Africa….but that is about it……
The problem is….this is a situation of our own creation……..
Nearly five years after the U.S., Britain and France launched a bombing campaign against the Libyan government to bring about regime change, these same countries are contemplating a resumption of the war they thought was won when rebel forces they supported grotesquely tortured to death the country’s leader, Col. Muammar Gaddafi.
No one is laughing in Washington now. President Obama came, saw and created the very opposite of what he sought, a hardly unusual outcome for the Obama and Bush Administrations in the Middle East. Instead of a pliable dependent government willing to do the bidding of Washington and its NATO foreign legion, there has been an explosion of civil war and Sunni jihadism.
Source: Obama Readies To Fight in Libya, Again – Antiwar.com Original by — Antiwar.com
One problem is that the person that the US chose to be the “new” leader is in fact a CIA creation….Col. Haftar……
Would this be the best idea….open another war front that we will have to engage in?
Source: The Pitfalls of Opening a Libyan Front against ISIL | Middle East Briefing
Personally, I think that we should finish one fight before we decide to start another…..our troops are stretched thin….how will we support a new war?
Damn good question, right?
Source: Obama and the Pentagon Plan Massive Military Escalation and the Media Barely Seem to Care | Alternet
Now we come to the payment of this ‘new’ plan…….where will this cash come from?
I am sorry but I want the people to decide who we send our troops to kill…..I want the American people to have a say in this…..but that will not happen….the government and the media are colluding to keep this from the public and to suppress any debate…..
Yes, I am anti-war and I have the best reason for my concern…I participated in a war and I know what the consequences will be…..we are seeing some of it today but it is not well reported and that is the plan…..keep the public in the dark and anything is possible.
Just ask Joseph Goebbels, if he were alive, he would attest to what I am saying…..
Time for Americans to stand up and demand a public debate on the wars we fight and when……time for Congress to stop spending our money without our permission……
Personally, I think America needs to reoccupy Iraq, but if it touches Syria, it is asking for trouble
Then we are asking for trouble….more problems will soon arise….chuq
They need to do something about Iraq. They created the problem now time to solve it proper this time
They are trying to work all sides against the middle….I agree Iraq needs solving….but nothing today comes close….chuq
Yep….
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” — Joseph Goebbels
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