Whoa, Ron, I think that was a way over the top reaction to an innocent
question. All Walter wrote was essentially a question. And a perfectly
innocuous question at that. The only point he made was that China sent a
warship, why didn't we. Since all the Americans who wanted to be evacuated were
evacuated there was certainly no need for a warship. During this entire
episode, the one thing our current administration was trying to do was keep
this at a global level without attempting to engage Quaddafi on a personal
level. The man is certifiably nuts (AQ slipping acid into the student's coffee
to make them become insurgents? Give me a break!).
Within an hour of receiving notification that all Americans who wanted to leave
had left either on the chartered flight or ferry, we froze all the Quadaffi
financial assets/accounts including those of his family and top "politicians"
in the regime. To have done so before our people were confirmed to be out of
there might have put that nut-job over the edge even more and resulted in a lot
of American deaths from retaliation.
Anyway, the point is Walter wasn't making any political (right wing or left
wing) statement - just asking a normal question.
Steve Weinstein
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----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Rogers
To: [email protected]
Cc: Walter Knopf
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Question: where is the 6th Fleet?
The Liveaboard List is not a political forum. Many right-wing commentators
are attacking the administration because we have our warships supporting two
wars and a pirate patrol. The Chinese chartered 3 cruise ships!
Why would we send warships for a peaceful evacuation? You wanna fight
somebody else?
We chartered a ferry that holds 600. Of the 300 passengers who left Tripoli
on that ferry, only 168 to 200 were Americans. The total number of Americans
that were in Libya was 600 to start with. Some took flights to include one US
chartered aircraft. I'm still trying to figure out why the Brits sent a
destroyer unless it was to save money. She was on her way home to be scrapped.
Take your phony facts and politics elsewhere.
Ron Rogers
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Walter Knopf <[email protected]>
wrote:
I am curious, the 6th Fleet is responsible for the Mediterranean, but I
haven't heard if they are near Libya to help evacuate US citizens. No
Google results, so I wonder if any boat spotted them somewhere else. China is
sending war ships to help their nationals, shouldn't we do the same thing?
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