The Obama administration is drawing up plans to significantly escalate U.S. military action in Libya. Administration officials say the campaign in Libya could begin in a matter of weeks. Urge Congress to exercise its Constitutional responsibility to debate and vote before U.S. military escalation in Libya by signing our petition at MoveOn: https://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/congress-debate-vote-before-new-libya-war This escalation…
During the last two presidential debates, the foreign policy discussion—what little there has been—has largely centered around the murder of four members of the US embassy staff in Benghazi. But while these four deaths were certainly grievous, the killing of hundreds of civilians in Pakistan from US drone strikes has so far been ignored—and that’s…
So asketh the website of a British venture, Trango Special Projects, according to a New York Times article published this past weekend. The piece provides a snapshot of the avaricious intentions of the West for the newly-liberated Libya. The anticipation of profits and priority access for the Transitional National Council’s NATO backers is described in…
Now that the UN Security Council has cancelled its authorization for the NATO mission in Libya, October 31 is expected to mark the end of the West’s (overt) military involvement in the country. With this end, so too will likely follow the end of media and public interest. Without a zany dictator to hunt down…
On Saturday, NATO Secretary General Fogh Rassmussen made a preliminary announcement that operations in Libya were going to end October 31. Confirmation of the departure date was supposed to occur at a meeting of the alliance today. However, that meeting has been delayed until Friday because Mustafa Abdel Jalil, leader of Libya’s transitional government, has…
While national attention is on the war in Afghanistan after the President’s announcement last night to only withdraw 33,000 U.S. troops by the end of next summer, Congress is gearing up again to debate another U.S.-led war–in Libya. While there is resounding, and ever growing, opposition to the war in Libya in the House, the…
Report back on your calls to your Senators’ offices concerning S.J. Res. 18 by posting a comment below. If you haven’t called yet, please do. Here’s a sample script: 1. You can reach the Capitol Switchboard by calling 1-888-231-9276, a number established by FCNL. 2. Ask to be transferred to your Senator’s office. 3. Ask…
The NDAA amendments approved by the Rules Committee are posted here: http://democrats.rules.house.gov/112/rule/112_hr1540_rule2.pdf Unfortunately, this document is not searchable. So, I made another document, a Word file, with just the amendments I thought were of particular interest, marking them STRONGLY SUPPORT, SUPPORT, or OPPOSE. “Strongly Support” means we put it in our action alert: the McGovern-Jones…
Here is a question I would like pollsters to ask American voters about the Libya War: Is sending Qaddafi to the International Criminal Court a military objective worth having American troops "fight and possibly die" for? I haven’t seen any pollster ask this question. Indeed, the fact that sending Qaddafi to the Hague is a…
The most important content of Presidential speeches is often what they don’t say. Here are some things that President Obama didn’t say about Libya in his speech last night. The President did not answer his critics who asked why he took America into war without authorization by Congress. This question was made sharper on Sunday…