Archive for Category: "Middle East"

March 23, 2011 09:27

Obama’s Libyan fiasco – Germans pull forces out of NATO as Libyan coalition falls apart

Deep divisions between allied forces currently bombing Libya worsened today as the German military announced it was pulling forces out of NATO over continued disagreement on who will lead the campaign. – UK Mail Online

March 23, 2011 04:15

Al-Jazeera’s Agenda in Libya and its American Apologists

So why are American academics associating with this terror TV channel? It is a question I have been trying to answer.

March 23, 2011 03:55

Gadhafi and The Hidden Pot of Gold in Libya

Libya’s gold reserves, ranked No. 23 in the world, ahead of Saudi Arabia, as of December 2009 (see table above), are worth around $6.5 billion at current prices, enough to finance Gadhafi’s defense against opposition and international forces for quite a while, to say the least.

March 22, 2011 07:01

Befuddled Barack – confusion reigns in Libya attack

Barack Obama’s White House hasn’t definitively addressed that essential issue about an operation that has cost the United States well more than $100 million.

March 22, 2011 04:57

Brit Hume on lacking Libya leadership

Brit Hume discusses the US role in attacking Libya. “Failure it seems in this case is an option.”

March 22, 2011 04:46

UN intervention into Libya an ominous precedent for Israel

Particularly concerning is the prospect that what we might call the Gaddafi Precedent will be used in the not-to-distant future to justify and threaten the use of U.S. military forces against an American ally: Israel.

March 21, 2011 07:51

What, me worry? Obama goes sightseeing after announcing 3rd war

As U.S. and British air strikes and cruise missiles pounded Muammar Gaddafi’s Tripoli palace, President Barack Obama was on a sightseeing tour of Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Christ the Redeemer hilltop statue. – UK Daily Mail

March 21, 2011 04:35

With no debate and no objective, Obama enters a war

At once presumptuous and flippant, President Obama used a Saturday audio recording from Brazil to inform Americans he had authorized a third war — a war in which America’s role is unclear and the stated objectives are muddled.

March 21, 2011 04:23

Obama’s War in Libya is Illegal and Unconstitutional

February 25 executive order declaring Libya “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States,” which is ludicrous on its face. Obama then declared “a national emergency to deal with that threat.”

March 21, 2011 04:08

Allen West on the 2012 fight

Allen West on Libya, Obama, leadership and 2012.