This thread is for anything Libya. I’ll start:
On Al-Jazeera a video clip was played of a fighter jet crashing to the ground. Anyone what that was all about? Was that a UN fighter jet?
The MSM is claiming that was a Libyan jet shot down by the rebels. I find it hard to believe the rebels have that kind of capablities though.
A friend of mine said Lybia is claiming they shot down a French jet. Possibility?
Question: Have we sent foreign aid to Libya over the past decades as we have to Egypt? If not, in what ways have we supported al-Qaḏḏāfī’s dictatorship as I’ve seen claimed?
What’s the over/under on when ground troops will enter Libya? I’ll go with 9 days from today.
Today at work a customer came in and brought up how Obama was doing a great job picking his March madness brackets instead of doing something about the more important things like the issues in the middle east and Japan. I responded that I wished he and all of the government officials would spend more time on those brackets then on Libya and Japan for the sake of the innocent people of Libya and Japan. Now that I think about it I wish march maddness would last months just to keep them occupied and out of everyone elses’ business, including mine. As far as ground troops being deployed, I say less then a week from now. Five or six days maybe.
With what? AKs?
Who knows. The French are reporting that they haven’t lost any jets, so yeah. Nevermind lol.
Some guy on Al-Jazeera [correction: Russia Today] said that many of the rebels are CIA agents and agents for other subversive agencies of the West.
Daniel Muffinburg,
I’m not saying that that isn’t true, but “Russia Today” has a tendency to blame just about every negative political occurrence in the world on the “evil Western imperialists”.
I know.
What a stereotype!
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/von%20havenstein/Benghazi.jpg
The jet shot down was a Mig-23, which is used by Libya.
The pic is epic. CoD MW3 stuff.
See, without interventionist foriegn policy where could we set videogames???
Just read where the U.S. has launched 112 tomahawk cruise missles targeted at anti-air defense. Obama says there will be no ground troops though…
Indeed
Damn. Taking that into consideration, our foreign policy is worth it. I can’t live without my Call of Duty.
This is probably the best justification I’ve herd for American foreign policy.
That’s the clip I was talking about. ZH reported that it was G-daffi’s jet, but now other outlets are reporting that rebels admitted that it was a rebel jet.