NOW is the Time to help Libya!

GET THE FACTS BEHIND THE NEWS. Efforts to help Libya are not sufficient to rid the country of Maommar Gadhafi. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told a Senate Panel that the Gadhafi regime will probably prevail due to superior fire power and logistics. Much more needs to be done. Embargo’s, freezes, travel bans, speeches take time, months and years to be effective. The rebels need help NOW. They may all be dead or captured before these measures take effect

The first priority is sending military supplies and equipment IMMEEDIATLY! Other measures might be missiles such as were used in Bosnia, air strikes, etc.

The administration is strangely timid and hesitant, maybe in a state of denial. Its foreign policies seem to be based on several faulty assumptions. Let’s consider.

1) We are being asked to help. This is different than our invasion of Iraq and our second invasion of Afghanistan, and Viet Nam.
2) Ground forces are not needed. A large number of Libyans are ready to fight. In fact they are fighting and dying while the world is talking.
3) The Obrama administration foreign poicy is based on the faulty assumption that we can not do anything unless everyone agrees. This approach leaves the US and the world leaderless. It is a recipe for doing nothing for Libya and anybody or anything. By the time you get the UN, NATO, the Arab League, the African group, Australia, and the city council of St. Louis to agree the Libyans will certainly be captured of killed.
4)In 1950 if Pres. Harry Truman had followed this advice S. Korea would now be part of N. Korea. Pres. Truman saw a need for action. He acted and invited the other nations to join us, which they did. This is leadership.
5) It is important to note the Arab League of 22 nations has asked the UN to take action against Maommar Gadhafi.
6) What are the implications for the US if we continue on our present path of speeches and long range actions? The world, good and bad, will see the US as a nation not interested in furthering democracy and helping others no matter what the justice of their situation.
7) What are the implications for the UN if we continue on our present path? The world will see the UN as an organization that can not maintain the peace and solve the worlds problems. This will be another large step in making the UN another League of Nations, where people give fine speeches and nothing happens.