No Message from President Obama = Libya

Guardian: Has an interesting comment piece in the Guardian, as the Guardian is left wing, or liberal in US terms, this comment piece is interesting as it attacks POTUS for his lack of talking to the US voter about the recent US military action in Libya, the commentary as a very stinging end, “ But when you send soldiers off to fight, you have to tell the American people why. I'm just flabbergasted. ”. And folks this is from the left, this blog does not have a problem with POTUS taking action, it was late but he got there at the end, but when you send the US armed forces in to combat you have to get your face on the TV, in first years in office POTUS could not help himself but be on TV everyday, this is the time for a chat from the Oval Office. When Reagan sent in the US Armed Forces in to action in 1983 he didn’t bother with Congress, he had the authority and took action, and Reagan was lucky, when the US returned US citizens to the US, one of them kissed the floor, the Democrats just stopped. In 1984 Reagan won 49 States, and 525 Electoral votes, the highest ever, if Obama wants to re-election he needs as stated in this blog a better PR section of the White House, the elite liberal media will carry him but the US voter does not trust the liberal news media, thus POTUS needs to talk to them, he is behind the curve on this, and voters don’t vote on the academic curve.

RAF and Ajdabiya

Telegraph: Reports on the RAF strikes of Gaddafi Security Forces in the Eastern Libyan town of Ajdabiya. This is helping the rebels, but the real problem is with the urban fighting on the ground, what are the Allies going to do about the snipers and ground troops that Gaddafi has sent in to Ajdabiya and Misrata in the West of Libya. An Air War cant not remove Gaddafi, the Allies and in this case we are talking about the UK and France will have to plan for small scale boots on the ground operation, the Allies cant wait for the rebels in the East to form a proper Army, and to be quite frank this blog could care less what the Arab League thinks about such an operation, in less they will also give troops. In the past the US could have pushed Egypt to take action but that country has it own internal mess to deal with, thus the Allies cant wait forever for the rebels to win, they might not want boots on the ground but they might just have to swallow that harsh pill. This would be small scale operation, no long term occupation, in and out in military terms, get Gaddafi and leave the Libyans to decide their own future. The Allies, the UK and France should not count on POTUS, he is not a real War Leader, he is no JFK or Reagan.

Afghanistan Front News

MOD: Has released the names of the two UK Soldiers that died on Wednesday in Afghanistan, the Soldiers were “ Major Matthew James Collins and Lance Sergeant Mark Terence Burgan from 1st Battalion Irish Guards ”. Our thoughts are with the families of Major Collins and Lance Sergeant Burgan.

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.