Joshua Keating, Slate: The U.S. Is Considering New Military Action in Libya, Since It Turned Out So Great Last Time
U.S. officials are currently “looking at military options” to combat the spread of ISIS in Libya, according to a Pentagon spokesman. These options would most likely involve U.S. special forces coordinated with militias on the ground to fight the group, which has established a stronghold around the coastal city of Sirte, also the hometown of Muammar Qaddafi.
The challenges facing any such military intervention are similar to those in Syria—a lack of reliable partners to act as a ground force, and the fact that ISIS’s enemies are also fighting against each other. While there have been no U.S. combat operations in Libya since the fall of Qaddafi in 2011, U.S. military personnel have been paying periodic visits to the country to make contact with potential partners. One incident in December didn’t bode well for this effort. A group of commandos who were making contact with the Libyan army were asked to leave the country after the air force posted a picture of them on its Facebook page, claiming that the visit was unauthorized. The incident was likely a result of a lack of communication between Libya's air force and army.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- January 29, 2016
Syria peace talks: With few players at the table and too little pressure on Assad negotiations are destined to collapse -- The Independent editorial
Will Growing The Network Of U.S. Military Bases Help Fight ISIS? -- David Vine, Here & Now
How Facebook helps ISIS -- Hossein Derakhshan, Medium
Analyst: Yemen's War Escalates as Sides Seek Negotiating Leverage -- Mohamed Elshinnawi, VOA
Undoing Years of Progress in Turkey -- Abdullah Demirbas, NYT
Israeli-Turkish Relations: Time Not Ripe for Reconciliation -- Eugene Kogan, Defense News
China Can't Postpone the Pain Forever -- Michael Schuman, Bloomberg
Don't expect China to ice North Korea -- Andrei Lankov, Al Jazeera
Is North Korea Preparing to Launch A Long-Range Ballistic Missile? -- Franz-Stefan Gady, The Diplomat
There is still hope for the U.S. relationship with Pakistan -- Lisa Curtis, War On The Rocks
Nigeria’s ex-president Jonathan is finally pushing back at claims of corruption -- Paula Dupraz-Dobias, Quartz
Nigeria is 'poised for a head-on collision' with armed militants and it could shake up the oil market -- Elena Holodny, Business Insider
The plunder of West Africa Ebola funds -- Fisayo Soyombo, Al Jazeera
Sweden Shows Us How Not to Handle the Great Migration -- F. Nelson, Telegraph
Venezuela's state informers: patriots or snitches? -- Diego Ore, Reuters
Russia, Saudi Arabia Ready to Curb Oil Production to Stabilize Oil Market -- Sputnik
How to Fight Zika Virus -- Bloomberg editorial
3 comments:
We don't have any kind of democracy in the States that would keep the government from doing what it does, we just watch.
People who pledge to defend the Constitution but then lack the means to actually defend it when defense is necessary must be very frustrated.
Don,
In the future you will be arrested by TPTB for not being content to watch the fare they put on TV such as Kim's butt.
Then you will feature in their 2 minutes of Hate.
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