14. How could the Senate approve of something that hadn't been articulated yet?
The Senate passed a non-binding resolution on March 1st that contained support for a UN led no-fly zone. The UN Security Council didn't act until March 17th.
13. somehow 'civilians' has morphed to include close air support for
offensive operations by one army in a civil war. The supposed crisis that motivated this was the imminent assault on Benghazi by the official Libyan Army. That could and quite reasonably should have been prevented on humanitarian grounds by the UN. But the mission never stopped there and went way past 'protect the citizens of Benghazi' from day one. This has been Mission Bullshit (Oil) from the get go.
11. a rifle that could shoot upwards becomes an "air defense" that must be taken out
then anytime you see troops with a gun, the no-fly must be protected by destroying their capabilities to shoot our planes down
"no fly" sounds pretty, but it's a justification for one sided war. We get to bomb the shit out of them and kill them all if they object to being shelled endlessly
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