Torpedos Over Tripoli

And apparently re-election.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-libya-sarkozy-20110320,0,1429282.story

Not the first time someone's dusted off the warmongering to get re-elected (and, no, not referring to Bush 43 in Iraq, either).

 

I would have lit a Big One in the mesosphere above Libya, just as a little reminder.

 

You're kidding.

 

I forgot that France wouldn't let us use their airspace back then.

 

@markknoller Mark Knoller

From CBS' David Martin: 3 B-2 stealth bombers fly non-stop from US & drop 40 bombs on Libyan airfield to destroy Qaddafi’s air force.

 

He has nothing to lose at this point and the guy is a maniac.

 

If the Europeans want to do their fair share of the heavy lifting for once, I'm fine with it. About damn time.

 

You can't blame Bush for this one.

 

Oh, so we're blow-jobbing the Europeans on this deal....and France fires the first one in some sort of BS symbolism? Did they pull out the white hanky after firing it? Or cry to the allies "Help us! Please, help us."

 

The French struck first because they were willing to run the risk of air assault on Qaddafi's forces around Benghazi before the missile strike on the air defenses, which the U.S. as a matter of military planning policy, does not do. It was, as most things in war are, far more impromptu than they say or others say.
PS: It isn't just oil for France, it's immigrants, or rather, helping to make sure there aren't more. French-Arab relations in France are about the sorest spot in their body politic.

 

It looks like the French were trying to cover themselves in some glory by striking first so as not to take any blame for delaying action.

We probably didn't want to go first anyway, but there's no way their strike was as effective as it could have been if they had coordinated it with us.

 

This is how easy it is for the US government to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to help out poor, unemployed people without health care against a uncaring government.

Too bad for poor, unemployed Americans without adequate health care the US government doesn't care about them,

For what it has cost the American taxpayers to get into the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, every three families could share a private physician, nurse and hospital room.

Why Libya and not North Korea, Sudan, Nigeria...?