Clinton: US Far From Decision on Libya No-Fly Zone

[steve2470]

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Clinton-US-Far-From-Decision-on-Libya-No-Fly-Zone-117257118.html

March 02, 2011
David Gollust | State Department

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the Obama administration is "a long way" from making any decision about whether to take part in a "no-fly zone" operation over Libya. At the same time, she said situation in Libya has the potential to descend into Somalia-like chaos.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says there may well be a role for U.S. and other countries’ military assets in delivering humanitarian assistance to those caught up in or fleeing the Libyan violence.

But reflecting a sense of caution shared by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Clinton is making clear the United States will not be rushed into joining in a no-fly-zone regime in Libya or other military intervention.

Clinton spoke at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing at which committee chairman John Kerry endorsed administration calls for the ouster of besieged Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi, and said the United States should be responsive to reported appeals from Libyan rebels for outside air support.

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[Posteritatis]

1. I imagine such a decision would be made about six months after the dust settles. (nt)

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. Ah, an optimist.

[Posteritatis]

5. Nah, I expect they'd count dust storms as unsettled dust.

I have zero faith in the US, or any body the US can veto, ever engaging in any kind of military intervention in Africa for even the most utterly unambiguously humanitarian of reasons; maybe especially not then, actually.

(Rwanda may have made me slightly bitter.)

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. "...(Z)ero faith..."

Like I said: An optimist.

[mmonk]

2. We put those in so we can later invade.

It is to make sure we can run through them like a goose.

[arbusto_baboso]

4. Our military is so overstretched this would be dicey at best.

[joshcryer]

7. Good enough for me. Gaddafi is having really bad luck with his pilots anyway.

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/africa/live-blog-libya-march-3

:rofl:

[David__77]

8. Well I appreciate the fact that there has been no intervention.

If they keep it that way, then that will be good. The posturing is stupid. They can't just bring themselves to admit that the US will stay out of it.