U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen, faced a grilling in front of Congress over the Libyan campaign. Gates said Washington shouldn’t assist the Libyan rebels, and should instead leave nation-building to other countries.
Archive for Category: "Middle East"
April 1, 2011 04:50
Krauthammer on Libya: This is keystone cops
“Is this why we send our men and women into battle, to act as a celestial referee of a civil war” “They have not given any answer that is credible”
March 31, 2011 04:16
Obama expands his war to save face
The CIA has sent small teams of operatives into Libya, and the White House said Wednesday it was assessing “all types of assistance” for rebels battling Moammar Gadhafi’s troops.
March 29, 2011 06:42
White House doesn’t care if we are helping al-Qaeda in Libya
[A] 2007 West Point study found that Libya accounted for one of the largest per-capita contributions to the foreign insurgency in Iraq.
March 29, 2011 04:57
Palin: Obama doctrine still full of chaos and question
Sarah Palin pummeled President Obama on his confusing speech tonight to the nation. The former Alaska governor told Greta Van Susteren, ” why in the world would our military might be used according to the UN and Arab League’s desires and NATO’s leadership in this skirmish or this war or whatever it is that Obama calls it?”
March 28, 2011 05:51
Libya ‘Not a Vital National Interest to the United States,’ Defense Secretary Gates Says
“No, no,” the Gates replied to ABC’s Jake Tapper. “It was not — it was not a vital national interest to the United States, but it was an interest — and it was an interest for all of the reasons Secretary Clinton talked about
March 25, 2011 04:53
Krauthammer: Obama’s “Working On Language That Will Disguise A Failure” In Libya
“Absurd” says Krauthammer of the decision to hand over control of Obama’s Libyan war to NATO.
March 24, 2011 07:22
Iran, Syria Benefit From U.N. Nuclear Assistance Program, Which the State Dep’t Insists on Funding in Full
[C]ountries currently designated as state-sponsors of terror – Iran, Syria, Sudan and Cuba – received more than $55 million in assistance from the International Atomic Energy Agency’s technical cooperation program. – CNSNews.com
March 24, 2011 04:51
Palin slams Obama’s anti-Semitism
“Why is it that too often in the past that too often the US government has told Israel that they’re the ones, the Jewish community, that they need to back up or there will never be peace? Why aren’t we putting our foot down with the other side?”
March 24, 2011 04:43
A World in Disarray
The United Nations has devolved into a cesspool of evil and irrelevance.
