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[LetsGoWings]

Hope we have a big stockpile of smartbombs and Cruise missiles - looks like that's our new role, using our technology again to bomb another 3rd world dictator's tanks and facilities...  Wish I knew what company built these to check the stock prices.

General Dynamics, Northrop, Lockheed, BAE, Boeing, and Raytheon do a lot with it. I think Raytheon and Northrop are the big with the weapons, but the other do some work with weapons.

[Professor H]

Well it appears as of this post these companies have all done well since Monday, sharp increases the past few days... 

BA - Boeing  Up $4 this week
GD - General Dynamics - Up $2.50 this week
RTN - Raytheon - Up around $2.00 this week
NOC - Northrup Grumman - Up about $1.50 this week
LMT - Lockeed Martin - Up about $0.50 this week  *only one on the list that wasn't performing well today

It appears they all got increased orders to fill with a 3rd and maybe more air to ground war.   Cruise Missiles cost over a million, not sure how much the other smart bombs run but it doesn't take long to add up.
 

[sawdust]

When does the UN do their job?

Like, maybe the UN has some sort of military force they can deploy?   You seem to forget that the UN has ZERO authority to recruit, train, supply, or deploy military personnel.   They do, however, have the authority to oversea military personal that individual countries assign to them...recall all the blue helmets in various peacekeeping missions? 

[SMASH]

Like, maybe the UN has some sort of military force they can deploy?   You seem to forget that the UN has ZERO authority to recruit, train, supply, or deploy military personnel.   They do, however, have the authority to oversea military personal that individual countries assign to them...recall all the blue helmets in various peacekeeping missions? 

Yep, and I also remember an Army First Sergent getting a dishonorable discharge for refusing to wear a UN insignia on his uniform! Thanks Bill! Clinton that is.

What about the bitchslap to the Rangers?
Taking away their time honored and earned Black Beret?
http://75thrangers.com/

Oh yeah, please explain to us just what a "peace keeping mission" is!!

I've been part of one.

Tell me what I missed.

It sure as hell looked, smelled, and felt a lot like a war to me.

We left no peace, and the show went on the road!

Next stop Grenada.

That didn't work out so well for us either!

Ask the 82nd Airborne.

What the hell?

I'm a prior service Marine jumping up and down about how the ARMY has been hosed!

The UN can go pound sand!

We need to get the hell out, let France have'em!



And the beat goes on....

Next stop?

[Professor H]

interesting point was made - now the US has established they will "defend" citizens from attacks in Libya.

When rebels advance in armor and tanks that they have procured and attack the pro-Qaddafi cities -  will the US attack those forces as well?

[Professor H]

[Frenchfry]

[Frenchfry]

Key House Republican Pulls a Newt on Libya

Hillary Clinton has been invited to testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Libya next week, and if committee Chair Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's (R-FL) recent statements are to be believed, she'll face some tough questions as to just why America has taken military action. But it's unclear just what Ros-Lehtinen's own position on Libya is, having apparently shifted between support and opposition for military operations over the last month.

Before President Obama joined an international effort to defend Libyan rebels under siege with air attacks on Qaddafi's forces, Ros-Lehtinen unambiguously backed a no-fly zone with a specific mission of protecting Libyan civilians under attack by the regime.

In a February 26 press release, she said that "stronger penalties must be imposed in order to hold the regime accountable for its heinous crimes, and to prevent further violence against the Libyan people. Additional U.S. and international measures should include the establishment and enforcement of a no-fly zone, a comprehensive arms embargo, a travel ban on regime officials, immediate suspension of all contracts and assistance which benefit the regime, and the imposition of restrictions on foreign investment in Libya, including in Libya's oil sector."

More here:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/key-house-republican-pulls-a-newt-on-libya.php

[The Fuzz]

I hope the leader of the Arab League of Nations is called in to testify on just how well they duped the US into sucking them in, only to chastise us later.  We did not, and do not belong in the middle of this problem!