The UN Resolution seems to have quite a bit of wiggle room regarding ground forces. No "occupying forces" but "take all necessary measures". The text, specifically, is:
"to take all necessary measures [notwithstanding the previous arms embargo] to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, including Benghazi, while excluding a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory'' So invasion force but not occupying force might be justifiable. Hopefully we are part of neither. Judah On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > > The UN mandate calls for air support, but explicitly forbids foreign > troops occupying Libyan soil. The most we're going to see out of this > on the ground is some SpecOps guys running around in the desert. The > rest will be aerial bombardment from ships and planes. > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Scott Raley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Is this why we are on track to leave Afghanistan so we can just ship the >> troops to Libya? This is the right time to cut the defense budget that is >> being done. >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:335344 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
