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Apr 1, 2011

Hope and Change Won’t Work in Libya

By Jeffrey Lightfoot

President Obama ran his hugely successful 2008 election campaign on the themes of hope and change. Unfortunately, he is also running the Libya war based on the same themes with far less success. The coalition strategy is to hope that escalating airstrikes will fracture Colonel Gaddafi’s inner circle and give the ragtag group of rebels […]

New Atlanticist

Apr 1, 2011

Libya Mission Creep: What If Gaddafi Doesn’t Fall Soon?

By James Joyner

Mother Jones’ Kevin Drum says he backed Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton because he had greater faith in the former’s judgment, especially on the matter of kinetic interventions. Alas, that confidence is being sorely tested. Obama has been a disappointment on civil liberties and national security issues, but since I frankly don’t think any modern […]

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Apr 1, 2011

NATO in Libya, Memories of Kosovo

By Sean Kay, the Washington Note

From Sean Kay, the Washington Note:  The Kosovo war is the best case in point to think about relative to the current crisis in Libya.

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Apr 1, 2011

NATO Warns Rebels Against Attacking Civilians

By Thom Shanker and Charlie Savage, the New York Times

From Thom Shanker and Charlie Savage, the New York Times:  Members of the NATO alliance have sternly warned the rebels in Libya not to attack civilians as they push against the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi

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New Atlanticist

Mar 31, 2011

NATO After Libya

By Stanley Sloan

NATO has been given an important role in the campaign against Moammar Gaddafi’s regime in Libya. However, this important task will not likely settle the on-going debate about NATO’s future. It has become popular in recent years for academics and commentators to question the validity of the NATO commitment for the United States and Canada […]

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Mar 31, 2011

Bulgaria sending frigate to join NATO Operation Unified Protector

By the Sofia Echo

From the Sofia Echo:  Bulgaria will join the international military operation against the Gaddafi regime in Libya with the deployment of the frigate Druzki (Daring), the Cabinet decided on March 30, television channel bTV said.

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Mar 31, 2011

House intelligence chairman will block covert arms to Libyan rebels

By Josh Rogin, the Cable

From Josh Rogin, the Cable:  Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) said in a late Wednesday interview that the Obama administration’s top national security officials were deeply split on whether arming the rebels was a good idea.

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Mar 31, 2011

Factions within Obama’s war cabinet battle over pace of Afghanistan drawdown

By Rajiv Chandrasekaran,  the Washington Post

From Rajiv Chandrasekaran,  the Washington Post:  Military leaders and President [Barack] Obama’s civilian advisers are girding for battle over the size and pace of the planned pullout of U.S. troops from Afghanistan this summer

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New Atlanticist

Mar 31, 2011

Saudi Nukes in Gulf

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

Overlooked in the welter of fast moving events throughout the Arab world was a Saudi Arabian call for transforming the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council into "an entity identical to the (27-nation) European Union" — plus nuclear weapons. Saudi Arabia has grown impatient "Waiting for Godot." Samuel Beckett’s famous play depicts the "meaninglessness of life," with […]

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Mar 31, 2011

NATO Chief: “We are there to protect the Libyan people, not to arm the people”

By Slobodan Lekic, the AP

From Slobodan Lekic, the AP:  NATO’s chief said Thursday the alliance doesn’t support U.S. and British suggestions that the U.N. mandate for the international military operation in Libya allows arming rebels who are fighting Moammar Gadhafi’s troops.

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