On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Michael Dinowitz < mdino...@houseoffusion.com> wrote:
> > Rice has said that Obama has not ruled out arming the Libyan rebels. Can he > do this without congressional oversight? > > As an aside, the more I actually learn about the rebels, the more I see > that > they are not the people we really want to be supporting. Are they the > lesser > of two evils? > I don't have a problem with the US providing military assistance to a UN mandated coalition action to avert the impending massacre of thousands of civilians. But beyond that, Libya is engaged in a civil war, a war where both sides can be nefarious, untrustworthy, and brutal. I don't think we should be taking sides in such a struggle. I would NOT support the US arming the rebels, or supporting them directly in their fight (ie attacking Qaddafi positions just to help the rebels achieve military victories and advance). A CNN reporter asked an interesting question the other day.....as rebels advanced on a Qaddafi held city (damn if i can't remember the city name now...Sute? Or something like that)...a city which does NOT support the rebels....what would the US do if the rebels began slaughtering the civilian Qaddafi loyalists??? WOuldn't our mandate then dictate that we must protect the Qaddafi supporters against the rebels? Again, this is a mess i don't think we should be diving into, beyond what we've already done. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:335679 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
