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Ministry of Silly Voices?.........Gramaisc said:One gets the feeling that his talents may possibly be re-directed in the not so distant future..basil said:However once it's all settled down what will billy hague say to the libyan leader when begging for more trade/business ?.......
Astro Boy said:............How a tiny kingdom strong-armed the US.............
Astro Boy said:another aspect is that in these times of economic woe the arab nations in league with washington / the pentagon do spend a lot of money on weapons - propping up the industrial military complex.
Astro Boy said:............How a tiny kingdom strong-armed the US.............
Despicable - anti-competitive practices are totally unacceptable.... the US has sent Bahrain dozens of "excess" American tanks, armored personnel carriers, and helicopter gunships.
The US has also given the Bahrain Defense Force thousands of .38 caliber pistols and millions of rounds of ammunition, from large-caliber cannon shells to bullets for handguns.
Suave - soft-shoe shuffle semantics.In the end, the Arab lobby ensured that, when it came to Bahrain, the White House wouldn't support "regime change", as in Egypt or Tunisia, but a strategy of theoretical future reform some diplomats are now calling "regime alteration".
Breaking News - Business As Usual Returns.It couldn't have taken the Arab lobby long to explain how quickly their spending spree might come to an end if a cascade of revolutions suddenly turned the region democratic.
Which town will the bodies be driven through now that RWB is retiring?Gramaisc said:Possibility of British and French forces being deployed 'within hours' if the UN resolution on Libya is passed....
See the spirit of cooperation, and people will worry, if it was the other side of the World, whether we would stand wing-tip to wing-tip on the good ship Charles de Gaulle.Gramaisc said:(Possibility of )British and French forces being deployed 'within hours' if the UN resolution on Libya is passed....
escobar said:Libya is the largest oil economy in Africa, ahead of Nigeria and Algeria. It holds at least 46.5 billion barrels of proven oil reserves (10 times those of Egypt). That's 3.5% of the global total. Libya produces between 1.4 and 1.7 million barrels of oil a day, but wants to reach 3 million barrels. Its oil is extremely prized, especially with an ultra-low cost of production of roughly $1.00 a barrel.
it's difficult not to be cynical!escobar said:The key point of UN resolution 1973 is point four - as in "take all necessary measures ... to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack ......... while excluding a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory".
It's essential to stress that "take all necessary measures" goes way beyond a no-fly zone, stopping short of a land invasion. Crucially, it covers air strikes, or cruise missiles unleashed on Gaddafi tanks on the road to Benghazi, for instance. But it may also cover bombing of Gaddafi regime installations in Tripoli - even his headquarters. With Gaddafi willing to fight to the death it's fair to assume the mandate only ends with regime change.