Our Congressman, democrat, from a really mixed district, asked our opinion on his facebook page. Out of 130+ comments, there were two or three who would go along with his decision to vote for the strike. The rest were variants Of "Hell no". As I said the district contains everything from very liberal to very conservative.
I read somewhere, probably Aljazeera, that the "rebels" had taken one air force base and promptly disabled all the planes. I don't know how many bases Libya has.
The sanctions were not aimed at Libya, but at the top 16 of the leadership. The nature of the sanctions shouldn't hurt the people of Libya. The sanctions include freezing all personal assets of the top 16, banning any travel of those people, referral of those people to the ICC for consideration of trial for war crimes, and banning any sale of weapons into the country. Humanitarian aid is encouraged. Oil sales are not forbidden especially where much of the oil infrastructure is in the hands of the "rebels". Yes, the US did a criminal, in my opinion, job of the sanctions on Iraq, but I see these sanctions as pretty well targeted.
Our Congressman, democrat, from a really mixed district, asked our opinion on his facebook page. Out of 130+ comments, there were two or three who would go along with his decision to vote for the strike. The rest were variants Of "Hell no". As I said the district contains everything from very liberal to very conservative.
I read somewhere, probably Aljazeera, that the "rebels" had taken one air force base and promptly disabled all the planes. I don't know how many bases Libya has.
The sanctions were not aimed at Libya, but at the top 16 of the leadership. The nature of the sanctions shouldn't hurt the people of Libya. The sanctions include freezing all personal assets of the top 16, banning any travel of those people, referral of those people to the ICC for consideration of trial for war crimes, and banning any sale of weapons into the country. Humanitarian aid is encouraged. Oil sales are not forbidden especially where much of the oil infrastructure is in the hands of the "rebels". Yes, the US did a criminal, in my opinion, job of the sanctions on Iraq, but I see these sanctions as pretty well targeted.