Another War? U.S. Pushing for U.N. Resolution in Libya
- Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:42am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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As reports surfaced Thursday that Moammar Gadhafi used bombers to attack a rebel stronghold in Tobruk, it looks like U.N.-sanctioned air strikes in response are not out of the question.
According to reports by both the Associated Press and Reuters, The U.S. is pushing for a U.N. resolution against Libya that could authorize a variety of military actions, including the use of planes and ground troops.
“Gadhafi’s rapid advance on the rebels appears to have spurred the United States to leave behind weeks of doubts about a no-fly zone in Libya, and start advocating for broader U.N. authorization for international air, sea and land forces,” the Associated Press reports. “The Obama administration and other supporters of action against Gadhafi were pushing for a Thursday vote on a draft resolution. Russia and China have expressed doubts about the U.N. and other outside powers getting involved.”
“We are discussing very seriously and leading efforts in the [U.N. Security] Council around a range of actions that we believe could be effective in protecting civilians,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice told Reuters in New York. “The U.S. view is that we need to be prepared to contemplate steps that include but perhaps go beyond a no-fly zone.”
Sec. of State Hillary Clinton said she hoped the Security Council would vote on action “no later than Thursday.”
Libyan rebels shot down at least two bomber planes that attacked the airport in their main stronghold on Thursday, according to residents who witnessed the rare success in the struggle against Moammar Gadhafi’s superior air power.
The rebels used three of their own seized planes and some helicopters to attack government troops fighting to advance on the city of Benghazi, said Mustafa Gheriani, a spokesman in the rebel base.
The rebels were unable, however, to keep Gadhafi forces from surrounding Ajdabiya, the last major city between Gadhafi’s forces and Benghazi 100 miles to the north, rebels and residents said. The opposition said it was hoping for help from the U.N. Security Council before government troops move in.
A senior hospital official told The Associated Press that 30 people had been killed and at least 80 wounded in fighting in and around Ajdabiya since Tuesday night. Many more of the injured couldn’t reach the hospital, according to the official there, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of official retaliation.
Libya’s armed forces told Benghazi residents in a scrolling message on state television that, “We are on the edges of the city and we are coming to help you and to cleanse your city of the armed gangs.”





















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Uncurable wound
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:58pmLord, be our shield and sword!
Report Post »Rob_M
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:54pmThe UN is possibly maybe comng to save the day sometime kinda soon? Does that inspire anyone even a little
Report Post »mike1029
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:44pmSeriously?? After all the whining about the wars he inherited, he wants to start another? The only reason he can possibly have is political.
Report Post »alr79
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:42pmI guess you are the bigger man since your name is in CapsLk, huh?
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:38pmWhy would we get involved in this and put our resources and lives on the line for people who HATE us more than they hate Gadhafi? STAY OUT OF IT. BO should just go and enjoy yet another family vacation. STAY AWAY, that would be even better. :)
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 1:34pm“Why would we get involved in this and put our resources and lives on the line for people who HATE us more than they hate Gadhafi?”
We have two other wars where the people we supposedly liberated do just that (and even moreso after being liberated). It’d be a nice trifecta.
Report Post »Beware of Romans
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:37pmIm posting information that would change the world for the better if people understood the corrupt history & nature of the Jesuit Society.
Your writing posts attacking people who do so.
Whos the bigger man here?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:47pmLooks like The Blaze deleted your cut and paste diatribe.
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 1:33pmYou come off as pretty insane tbqh
Report Post »chickenlittle
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 2:15pmWe are… find something relating to the stories… then we’ll at least read your post (the first time anyway).
Report Post »Ken2
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 12:17pmYour “facts” don’t hold water.
Report Post »dim
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:35pmIsn`t this what the Weather Underground wanted in there little book? Spread the military thin in multipal wars, rise up against the man!
Report Post »alr79
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:34pmTO EVERYONE WITH A BRAIN: Report BEWARE OF THE ROMANS, for being an idiot.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:33pmsomething is very wrong with this idea.. i need more info to see if i can figure out WHY BHO is doing this
Report Post »calebgs83
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:29pmIf LIbya wants freedom…let them fight for it themselves.
Report Post »conservativemom99
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:28pmAdd your comments
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:21pmThanks for posting that. I missed it on the other 800 stories you posted it on.
Report Post »Carbine1
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:19pmBring all of your troops home? It was started by people like you.
Report Post »Carbine1
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:18pmWhy would WE[be anti Gadhafi] do that. Just because THE AMERICAN PEOPLE VOTED IN A COMMUNIST PRESIDENT or allowed A MINORITY to do so doesn’t mean that the leader of LYBIA[ or any other country] should allow the same to happen to HIS COUNTRY. I am glad HE [MOHAMMAR GADHAFI] is refusing to give up HIS COUNTRY. I refuse to give up my country and some of you better decide to do the same thing. STICK UP FOR YOUR COUNTRY AND VOTE OUT THESE COMMUNISTS IN OUR government. VOTE in 2012 or YOU WILL end up on the street and some Communist will own EVERyTHING you ever worked for.
Report Post »B-Neil
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:15pmBring all our Troops home. Let the rest of the World, shake rattle and roll. Then we can see what falls out. Meanwhile we secure our Country, repair our infrastructure and re- build our Edjucational system. If Russia and China want to pay for the rest of the Worlds problems thats there business. The’ll learn. Its time for us to take care of us. I’m at that age, I can see the Exit sign. To you I say;Carry on McDuff Handle it……..
Report Post »mrclean
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 2:51pmYou have hit a perfect bullseye on this one.
Report Post »the hawk
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:14pmNO, NO. NO. NO. NO damit!
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:06pmHuh? Airstrikes against Libya? Why? This is a very strange (and ineffective) way for our failed “president” to try to convince people that he is a leader. Meanwhile, somewhere in Brazil, the obamas are vacationing….again…..
http://nation.foxnews.com/first-family/2011/03/17/obama-family-hitting-beach-rio-weekend
Report Post »B-Neil
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:03pmNO! Its time the rest of the World stood-up. We can’t afford to fix the World. Other Countrys will just have to handle there own problems. If China or Russia wants to take on those Financial Burdons, let them have at it. It’s time to bring our troops home. Secure our Country, fix our infrastucture and build our Educational future. Let the rest of the World shake rattle and roll. Then we will watch to see what falls out. It’s really time for us to take a break from World Bu-lsh-t……Carry on McDuff
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:40pmI said it before and I’ll say it again, We should charge the UN member nations $10 million a year for contingency fees, just like a lawyer on retainer then, getting so many days of military action then $10 million a day.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:03pmWhat a sham!
Nothing like allowing the media to decide when to go to war.
This administration is pathetic – wow!
Report Post »REETZBEE
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:34pmIts obvious Obama lets all major decisions simmer with his base up until the last minute and then makes a decison. He‘s got to make it look like he’s under so much pressure to do the right thing every time even though his Progressive base is against it.
Report Post »Bullcop34
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:02pmWe have no vested interest in Libyia.
Report Post »brien
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:59amWe need another war like we need another trillion in debt. Bring the troops home and have the UN and Nato, minus the US, do the police work. The US should retire from the force into a advisory position only.
Report Post »sadmanwhossane
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:58amnever a fan of gadahfi but he has a right to quell any uprising in any way he sees fit. dont you think your own goverment would do the same? absoloutly it would, regardless of your legitimacy
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:44pmThat is true but, Obama asked him to step down. How can he refuse ? It’s just not polite!
Report Post »NYSTREETKID
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:58amObama has to be called one thing He is a coward, where real man fought and died there for freedom. A word he uses like a wipe rag to clean his soul. He is truly a little man
Report Post »604karen
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 3:59pmMan????
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:55amS#*t or get off the pot Barry. It’s going to all be over by the time you and your U.N. buddies make up your minds. I don’t necessarily support it but, if your going to send our men in to harms way, do it while they can still make a difference.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:56amSorry – you’re. (For the spelling Nazis)
Report Post »ginsberg
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:25pmthis is so funny…first many on this site mocked obama for supposedly ignoring libya, and now that the u.s. is increasing political pressure on gadhaffi, obama gets shouted down as a war mongerer trying to gain political capital through war. I have yet to see any of you offer a single good stratagy for libya…in fact I saw many including beck advocate antagonizing gadhaffi while americans were still in libya. Fortunately obama was smart enough to wait for americans to leave libya before attacking gadhaffi in the press.
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:33pmStero-typical liberal. Get all your information right so you can’t make a decision, until it’s tool late. I’d say Obummer missed his chance.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:34pmI have yet to see anyone “shout Obama down as a war mongerer” . Far from it. I personally think the Arab countries with the military power to do it (Egypt and Saudi Arabia), should be the ones to enforce a no fly zone. Arabs scream about American involvement in Arab affairs yet, they cry (like spoiled children )for America to intervene when they want something done and don’t want to dirty their hands.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:47pmActually we are crazy to get involved in another war in the Middle East as we can’t afford it. And by the way, where are the jobs GOP. http://wp.me/pYLB7-KJ
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:57pmSo, Dems have the White House, the Senate, set the agenda and it‘s the GOP’s fault job growth is weak?
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 1:30pm” Far from it. I personally think the Arab countries with the military power to do it (Egypt and Saudi Arabia)”
You don’t see a reason why neither of those two countries should, at this time, be expected to perform military operations? Even Israel enacting a no-fly zone would be more realistic and might actually help the country finally gain some friends in the middle east.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 2:12pmGonzo: “Arabs scream about American involvement in Arab affairs yet, they cry (like spoiled children )for America to intervene when they want something done and don’t want to dirty their hands.”
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Spot on. For example, as one of the Wikileaks documents revealed, those two-faced Arab countries have been SECRETLY begging the U.S. to denuke Iran, while officially warning that an attack on Iran by Israel would ignite an all-out war in the ME.
The worst expression of Arab hypocrisy is that they teach the common folk to hate us, and allow jihad against America to be taught in their madrasas.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 2:46pmNon-sequitur
Report Post »Isreal should enforce a no fly zone? That’s brilliant. You may just get the Nobel Peace Prize.
Are the Egyptian and Saudi Air Forces more tied up than the American Air Forces? They aren’t using their Air Force to keep the peace, they are using ground troops. You libs just can’t stop making excuses for Muslims no matter what part of the world they are in, can you?
604karen
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 3:55pmHey I have a golf game to take care of before I have time for dying revolutionaries. Love Bama
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 4:14pmToo late , that loon in Libya is winning .
Report Post »jackrorabbit
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:49amSomething to think about: We (the US, because when the POTUS speaks for better or worse it is US) encouraged an uprising in Egypt, which led to ones in Bahrain and Libya, et. al. However, these two are being resisted by the governments, one Qaddafi deserves to go. However, has anyone bothered to think what Saudi Arabia will say if we lead this attack? What happens when their oil fields get attacks or the majority rise up against the prince there and he stomps on them? Which he will, because it is his troops in Bahrain doing the crowd control. Have we just been duped into a no win situation? We should just do as Jefferson suggested and stay out of foreign affairs, because like all affairs, they just screw up a good thing.
Report Post »jackrorabbit
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:53am@Walkwithme
Report Post »The GOP is still trying to pass LAST YEARS budget, which the Dems didn’t do, because if they did, they would have lost the Senate too. Why blame the GOP, who has been in power in ONE house, when the Dem‘s had FULL CONTROL for TWO WHOLE YEARS and didn’t do anything?
Better check your brain, I think all the logic has leaked DRY.
Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:50am““The Obama administration and other supporters of action against Gadhafi were pushing for a Thursday vote on a draft resolution.”
Did the POTUS make this supposed high mukity, muck decision while picking his NCAA bracket?
Report Post »hersey10
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:52amThe Lefties must be nearing complete meltdown as I type . The Bamster probably wanted to wait until the NCAA tournament was over but President Jarret said this won’t look good for 2012 .
Report Post »wildjoker5
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:56amHigh on the dry-erase marker.
Didn’t want to appear weak anymore.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:59amYou can’t let this Marxist Obama do anything, anymore. STOP ASKING HIM TO SOLVE PROBLEMS! He WANTS to destroy America, and he will use Libya to stay in power.
Stop calling for the “top down”, morons!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:01pmI have warned people that when Obama’s administration is nearing collapse in the ratings he would look to a foreign adventurism (i.e. “war”) to try and distract the public; look for some kind of incident involving an Libyan and American forces turning into an armed confrontation that will provide him the excuse to enter the nation with overwhelming force.
Seek out the other fist, for in it is held a blade posed to strike at the nation given the first chance.
Anyone thinking this situation sounds crazy, consider the Argentinian situation before they sought to reclaim the Falkland Islands.
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:14pmI say put casey in charge it doesn’t take him so long to make a decision. Someone will have to make this decision for Obama he is not capable. Maybe if someone tells him this will help with the polls and put him in campaign mode he will move.I don’t want a war but send them some help. Bring our soldiers home from the middle east and put them at the border.
Report Post »Miguelito
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:25pmObama is just trying to destroy the military!
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:30pm1 aircraft carrier and 2 missle destroyers could enforce a “no fly zone” All the rebels want and need is a chance. Destroy The LAF and tanks they would have that chance. Obozo doesn’t have the brass ones for that and the UN is/has always been a joke.
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:41pmI’m on the fence here. I think to a possible revolution here in the USA, and some Arab country supplies arms and personnel to the “activist lefty progressives” who are trying to turn our beloved country into a socialist state by armed insurrection. Would I like that? Heck no. So why do we think we can go around meddling in soverign countries when their socialists have been fired up by the Obama administration? What am I missing? We went into Afganistan for a good reason. We went into Iraq for perhaps a less valid reason. What reason could we claim if we went into Libya? Egypt?
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:44pmCorrect me if Im wrong but havent other nations ALREADY been on board with a no-fly zone? Didnt Now BHO wants to get some support to do it… wtf is with this guy lately? Oh and lets not forget the rebels have been begging for help, I think I even heard them call out his name “help us Obama”!
Its usually the US going in first with everyone following now it is the world waiting for us and now we are going to the UN?! Just another day in the twilight zone. I am not one for the US to be the police force of the world but when you have other nations already saying lets set up a no-fly zone, rebels begging for help who needs to run to the UN just do it!
Rack this up as another BHO failure… and once again Barry comes rolling in after the fact. Funny he only seems to take action/ or speak very late in the game when its the people rising up against a radical regime. He has show his colors whose side he is on!
Report Post »snidley-whiplash
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:47pmCradle of civilization: The earliest civilizations in history were established in the region now known as the Middle East around 3500 BC, in Mesopotamia (Iraq), widely regarded as the cradle of civilization.
Report Post »This is what the world calls civilization?????????? 5511 years of war and war only, the governments and the people of these countries produce nothing but pain a suffering.
Please name one thing they produce to the benefit of the rest of the world.
The true cradle of the civilizied world is America and the current admin is taking it to hell, we are surly knocking on the door.
Many of us know the answer but 1. the govt won’t listen and 2. We could hardly post it here!
SF
Rogue
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:54pmMr. Gadhafi – I have here in my hand an envelope that contains a strongly worded UN resolution. This means you must stop killing you citizens. If you don’t comply, we will bring in alot of folks in blue helmets, and hide indoors within various compounds around your nation until you stop.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:57pmWho are these “rebels?” The UN is not telling us and our transparent govt. has clammed up, as per usual.
Let’s set aside a national day to burn your Nobel Peace Prize in a huge bonfire for all eyes to see, Barack Hussein. You have instigated rebellion in the world and in your own country, you sorry excuse for a president.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 1:26pmSparky101
“I’m on the fence here… why do we think we can go around meddling in soverign countries when their socialists have been fired up by the Obama administration?”
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That toxic commie only wanted Mubarak deposed, but he is such an ignorant, incompetent fool, he thought the other rogue dictators who ARE of his liking would be able to quell any “minor” protests in their countries. It didn’t turn out that way, and now that despicable human trash representing America is befuddled.
Regardless of whether Barack Hussein intervenes militarily in Libya or not, we now have a sworn enemy in Qaddafi. The Traitor has polarized Libya against us, a repeat of what he did to Pakistan. One can’t help but despise such a man.
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 1:38pmi was stationed in German from 1986-1989, came home for leave 1 day before pan am 103, my flight was pan am 103, part of berlin brigade 502nd inf div when le belle was bombed. Time for war with libya passed over 20 years ago.
Report Post »mrclean
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 2:23pmThe article said:
Libyan rebels shot down at least two bomber planes that attacked the airport in their main stronghold on Thursday, according to residents who witnessed the rare success in the struggle against Moammar Gadhafi’s superior air power.
The rebels used three of their own seized planes and some helicopters to attack government troops fighting to advance on the city of Benghazi, said Mustafa Gheriani, a spokesman in the rebel base.
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Pretty well-armed for commoners.
Do we need to find out how they got their hands on planes and helicopters…… handy knowledge to have. Just sayin’. :-]
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 3:47pmLibyan rebellion has Islamic supremacist flavor
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/03/libyan-rebellion-has-islamic-supremacist-flavor.html
“Well known to the United States policymakers in Obama White House and Clinton State Department along with the National Security Council but not widely known to American mainstream media, the U.S. West Point Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center document reveals that Libya sent more fighters to Iraq’s Islamic militancy on a per-capita basis than any other Muslim country, including Saudi Arabia.”
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““Libyans were more fired up to travel to Iraq to kill Americans than anyone else in the Arabic-speaking world,” Andrew Exum, a counterinsurgency specialist and former Army Ranger noted in a blog posting recently. “This might explain why those rebels from Libya’s eastern provinces are not too excited about U.S. military intervention. It might also give some pause to those in the United States so eager to arm Libya’s rebels.””
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:37am““The Obama administration and other supporters of action against Gadhafi were pushing for a Thursday vote on a draft resolution.”
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Look folks, this is all BS. Obama is taking a calculated chance that Qadhaffi will have the uprising squashed by the time they can actually do anything about a no-fly zone. He knows that all they now have to do is stall for a few more days and tens of thousands of Libyans will be dead and buried. Then Obam can just continue with his very important vacation. But now he can claim to all Veterans, Republicans, etc, that he was tough on Qadhaffi. It’s all play-acting!
Who do you want to run for POTUS in 2012?
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jackrorabbit
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:38amWhile I truly feel for those in Libya and their uprising, the U.S. is simply in no position to open up a third war, and it will become one, and the blame will be laid at our feet.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:42amRogue
Report Post »Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:54pm
If you don’t comply, we will bring in alot of folks in blue helmets, and hide indoors within various compounds around your nation until you stop.
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That ought to do the trick… if we were dealing with Mr. Rogers or Kermit the Frog.
ManThong
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:11am“The U.S. is pushing for a U.N. resolution against Libya that could authorize a variety of military actions”
U.N Resolution? U.N Resolution? Reagan didn‘t need no stinkin’ U.N Resolution!
Anyhow, there isn‘t a compelling national interest for attacking Jeremia Wright’s good buddy Muhammar.
Report Post »saneasylum
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 5:16pmToo late , they already let loose on Ghadafy……………. RIP
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