U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates attends the North Atlantic Council meeting during the NATO Defense Ministerial in Brussels, June 8, 2011. DOD photo by Cherie CullenGates Gives Grim Account Of NATO's Libya Efforts -- McClatchy News
LONDON — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday painted a bleak picture of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's mission in Libya in a speech designed to encourage alliance members to spend more money on defense.
Pointing out that the Libya mission has lasted just 11 weeks, Gates told NATO representatives gathered in Brussels that "it has become painfully clear" that the effort to drive Moammar Gadhafi from power had revealed a range of "shortcomings, in both capability and will, that have the potential to jeopardize the alliance's ability to conduct an integrated, effective and sustained air-sea campaign."
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My Comment: The results speak for themselves. After 3 months of fighting, Gadaffi's forces have been able to resist the full might of NATO .... and in some cases are defeating and/or pushing back the rebels that NATO is openly supporting.
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I'm not sure it's "the full might of NATO" unless you meant sarcastically, or you meant "the full European might of NATO".
Or - perhaps it the phrase should be polished to "the full politically-acceptable might of NATO".
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