Which would, of course, work out as a “lots of missiles over Israel zone” – from France 24:
Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa announced Sunday his intention to appeal to the UN Security Council for a no-fly zone over Gaza, where repeated Israeli air strikes have left at least 18 people dead since Thursday…
And this puts us in quite a pickle – given that civilians do die in Israel’s retaliatory strikes and our whole announced purpose in Libya is to protect civilians, how do we oppose this? Especially given the Obama Administration’s penchant for pressuring Israel and kowtowing to Islamists?
The absurdity of intervening in Libya “to protect civilians” is laid bare – you don’t just go to war to stop someone from doing something; you go to war to obtain a definite, desired outcome. If our stated aim in Libya was to oust Gaddafi, then we’d be able to easily tell the Arab League to go jump in a lake. Now, not quite so easy. Perhaps next time our Administration will think a bit before setting a policy?
Additionally, and of course, the situation in Libya is not the same as the situation in Israel. The Libyan government was deliberately massacring civilians in order to maintain control. Israel, on the other hand, is merely trying to stop unprovoked missile attacks from the Islamists – and as the Islamists, cowards to a man, hide behind women and children when they launch their attacks, it is certain that some civilians will die. The answer is not to stop Israel from protecting herself, but to find a means of stopping the Islamists from committing wanton murder.
But US policy won’t be able to carry on such a logical, just and, indeed, merciful policy. We’re stuck “defending civilians”, but only against air strikes…no defending civilians who are being rounded up and murdered by a thug in Libya; no defending civilians who are being used as human shields by terrorists in Gaza.
2012 can’t get here fast enough…
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