Obama Message - Libya

The Oval needs to look at its process of PR, when the US military is in action it does not need the White House Press Secretary to say something like this about the US action in Libya, “ It is a time-limited, scope-limited military action, in concert with our international partners, with the objective of protecting civilian life in Libya from Muammar Qaddafi and his forces. ”. It sounds like something written by a lawyer, the Oval has to understand its not back at Harvard Law, its in Oval Office, the US voter when it sees the US in action wants a clear message of winning, or securing US objectives, it does not want political correct message when the Armed Forces of the US are in action. If POTUS wants to win in 2012 he needs to fire his Communication Department, have a press secretary that can be original but also have a clear message that might just annoy the NYT.

Portugal = Next to Fall ?

Guardian: Reports that Portugal is expected to ask for economic bailout following in the footsteps of Greece and Ireland. Thus the PIGS are falling folks, the next on the cards and the most troubling is Spain, the EU fund can take care of Portugal but Spain is another matter, at what point does the defence of the Euro become MAD, a political con that no one has the courage to bury, the Euro is killing the weaker economic countries of the EU. If Spain falls then it should be allowed to fall, the UK should not at any cost bailout any more countries. The debt cancer is killing any chance of recovery, sooner or later the cancer has to be seen its whole, and it might be that the UK should allow it to kill the economies of the weaker EU counties, thus the EU could then restart, fresh, this way it’s a death of thousand cuts, good money down the toilet.

NATO at the Helm for Libya

Telegraph Live - Libya: Reports that NATO will take military control of the Libyan operation within forty eight hours. This will take the pressure off the Oval, it can say it is transferring the Command helm to NATO, of course the US is NATO in many respects, thus expect a US Commander to run the operation. Lets hope Libya does not turn in to another Afghanistan, endless with no clear result. It seems that the West is going for a limited strategy when it comes to Libya, thus expect the West to construct an Army in the East of Libya and create a command structure, this will allow the rebels to march on Gaddafi in the West, lets hope the Allies doe not lose any of its Armed Forces due to this plan.

Deaths in Afghanistan

MOD: Reports that Two UK Soldiers were killed on Wednesday in Afghanistan, the Soldiers were from the “ 1st Battalion Irish Guards ”. Thus since 2001 the UK has lost 362 of its Armed Forces Personnel in Afghanistan, of that total it has lost 318 in combat action and 44 due to illness, accidents or other incidents.