Senate Panel Approves Libya Resolution

[Hissyspit]

Source: Reuters

Senate panel approves Libya resolution
WASHINGTON | Tue Jun 28, 2011 4:13pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel on Tuesday approved a resolution formally authorizing continued U.S. participation in the NATO-led military intervention in Libya but banning the introduction of U.S. troops on the ground there.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 14-5 to approve the measure offered by Senator John Kerry, a Democrat, and John McCain, a Republican, sending it to the full Senate, where it faces an uncertain future.

It would authorize the mission for up to one year after the date of enactment of the resolution by Congress, unless the NATO mission ends sooner.

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[Demeter]

1. Vote NO to Senseless, Endless, Illegal War

[pampango]

2. It is better for Congress to vote on the Libyan intervention - up or down - than to continue

with the "it's not really a war".

It's a good opportunity to discuss the UN's role in the world and the US' role in the UN. Should the UN pursue its fairly recent (2005) Responsibility to Protect or forget about it? If it continues, how, when, where should it be used? What should the role of the US be if and when the UN authorizes R2P interventions in the future?

Better to discuss these now than to muddle through with a "it's not really a war" which may work now to keep NATO going in Libya but does nothing to educate people and make the next similar "crisis" easier to fit into a realistic view of our role in the UN and the world and how to comply with our own legal requirements in the process.

[Fuddnik]

3. I'm really ashamed I worked my ass off for Kerry in 2004.

Senator, who said, "Who wants to be the last person to die for a lost cause"? Any clue?

[al bupp]

4. He knows that Libya's hardly a lost cause

Nor have any U.S. service members died there, and I would wager that none will.

[Vattel]

5. Irrelevant.

It takes the full Congress to authorize war.

[pampango]

6. True. We'll see if the Orange Man has any intention of the House taking this up. n/t