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Possibility of Terrorist Attacks Coming From Libya

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  April 7th, 2011 at 12:18 PM  | 

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Well that’s a fine mess you’ve gotten us into Mr. Obama.

The U.S. is monitoring the possibility of terrorist attacks originating in Libya, either from the forces of Muammar Qaddafi or rebels who may have associated with terror groups in the past, FBI Director Robert Mueller said.

I think any of us could and would expect terror attacks originating from (Kh)(G(h))(Q)addafi. But from the rebels?

Weren’t they supposed to be the good guys, Mr. President? I thought if we helped them they’d love us.

The academic naivety of Barack Obama is yet again on display.

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  • Marcus_Traianus

    They can monitor away. Gaddafi isn’t going to attack us here. Up until a few months ago we were about to perform military exchanges with the terrorist. This is simply more icing on the poop sandwich Obama has been feeding us on Libya.

    You have more to fear from the rebels. That group is comprises many of the same people we have been fighting all over the planet (AKA The Real Enemy, not a flavor-of-the-day two bit dictator chosen by his highness). These same “rebels” are also taking weapons back to places they are currently fighting against us.

  • msctex

    . . .where a President and staff launch a military intervention in Libya while having no idea whatsoever what they are doing differ from daily reality? It’s one thing to interject ourselves in a situation apparently free of anyone classifiable as “Good Guys,” but to help both sides requires a special kind of mind. Has the term “Military Egalitarianism” ever even needed be coined?

    If it were a fictional narrative, the part about Ghaddafi addressing Obama as a member of the collective Islamic family would be struck as far too over-the-top, there’s that.

  • redinwash

    I’m guessing the threat of terrorist attacks increasing from BOTH Iraq AND Afghanistan after Bush invaded triggered the same reaction in us as well?

  • http://UnitedConservativesofVirginia Cargosquid

    We committed acts of war against a country that was no threat to the US or US interests, had not put our citizens in danger, renounced nuclear development, had supposedly renounced terrorism, and was not threatening any OTHER country……

    Is he justified in responding in kind?

  • Tbone

    you should expect them to make war on you.

  • slimmu

    will likely increase the threat of terrorist attacks on our nation regardless of what country it is. However, you have to weigh which threat is greater, doing something or doing nothing. Afghanistan had proven that they could launch a devastating attack on us so its an easier choice. We had been in a conflict before with Iraq, knew they had used chemical weapons and so had to decide do something or do nothing. Now Libya, despite being a state sponsor of terror in the past, is different, they were having a civil war, no real immediate threat to us so why intervene? This isn’t to say I wouldn’t like to see Gaddafi shed his mortal coil for Pan Am 103 and maybe this was an opportunistic chance to do that but it wasn’t as clear a decision.

  • Tbone

    black LBJ.

    So now we must consider ground troops too, according to General Carter Ham. Presumably, we already have special ops in country. Next thing we know, some one in the White House will be doing a Word, “Find and Replace” job on a copy of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.

    Helloooo Viet Nam.

  • rightwingmom52

    yesterday, I wondered to myself why we don’t compare Obama to to the lackluster Johnson. And now you’ve gone and done it. There are so many great ideas about how to frame the debate of liberal vs. conservative or what ads to run floating around on sites like this that I just don’t understand why the GOP doesn’t take advantage of them.

  • Tbone

    clearly defined objective. That was LBJ’s “Art of War” and the Repubs should be giving Obama the “Lyndon B. Johnson, Commander in Chief” award to sit next to his Nobel Peace Prize.

  • 4suramcan

    are not interested in whats good for america. they do just enough to keep us guessing, maybe just maybe etc etc. so that a full scale revolt does not happen. both parties sold us out, long ago.

  • ag8tor

    uniformed, no clue administration. The Keystone Cops were better organized!

  • edintexas

    Like this new troll said “[I'm banned for trolling. Don't bother replying to me.]“

  • edintexas

    The LBJ CiC Award. That’s really good.

  • robobbob

    about a President who stated “We can absorb a terrorist attack”

    more like acceptable calculated risk and just part of the price to bring about his idea of change.

    really Red State. I hope you’re just trying to be civil. Have no doubt about the type of creature he is, and what he’ld do if he had the power. remember the fly incident? think long and hard about that.

  • robobbob

    and a few months ago, we hadn’t broken whatever deal we had made with him to play ball.
    Khaddafi isn’t going to personally attack us. all he has to do is tell the right people “go”, maybe provide some useful information, or just write some checks, and it will happen without his fingerprints ever being on it.
    heck, all he would have to do is make sure the right kind of rebels get their hands on some SAMs or some miscellaneous expl. (which they already have) and they’ll do the rest for free. built in plausible deniability.