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There is a New Sheriff in Town

jaybone

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... and his name is Nick Sarcozy. Holy Cow. France going badass in Cote d'Ivoire. Pull Gbagdo out by the ankles and hand him to Ouattara.

Sarcozy + Cote d'Ivoire = win
Obama + NATO + Libya = fail

Question - can we unleash Sarcozy on Libya next?
 
erm, France seems to be leading the NATO effort in Libya. And the EU is getting closer to working out a cease-fire with Gaddafi
 
cease fire doesn't do shit. Gadfly wins a cease fire because he can regroup and move around his cached arms.

Got to drag him out by the ankles otherwise all the cost in money and dead will be for naught.

I really think wars in the future will be won and lost by Special Forces. Without Special Forces doing badass shit, you get Libya.
 
The problem is that Obama doesn't want Qaddafi gone. His vocal support for the rebels and half-assed military intervention were the end result of him being hamstrung by his own Cairo speech. Mubarak was a lifelong US ally, and Qaddafi has begun working with the US more and more frequently. What are the radicals going to say to the young rebel fighters if Obama talks a big game about democracy in Cairo and then doesn't back freedom fighters when they need him most? Think Iraq in 1991 and Afghanistan in the 80s. The US only cares about it's own interests, and while they may say they care about democracy, they will support tyrannical puppet governments in order to protect their own ME interests. Boom, Al-Qaeda 2.0.

Obama's shortsighted and overidealistic reaction to the foreign policy of the Bush administration is what has gotten us into this mess in the first place. As for France, they still assert control over their foreign colonies. It's not like Sarkozy has all of the sudden become a neoconservative.
 
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Obama aced Libya. Line up your political cover, put the fire out, and get out before you purchase something you don't want. Let the French or the UN nation build. Not interested.
 
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