This one instance I agree with Lugar. Getting involved in Libya is a mistake and the GOP don’t have the stones to go into “anti war” mode and tie it into a cutting spending message. What’s the hell wrong with these guys?
The Politico reports that Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) warned on Sunday that the U.S. is starting a treacherous descent down a slippery slope of international diplomacy by getting involved in Libya.
It doesn't make sense, he said, for the U.S. to help Libyan civilians when the citizens of countries like Bahrain, Yemen and Syria are also being oppressed.
"We had better get this straight from the beginning," he said on CBS's "Face the Nation," "or there’s going to be a situation where war lingers on, country after country, situation after situation, all of them on a humane basis, saving people."
Lugar, the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who has helped broker key nuclear weapons reductions with former Soviet Union countries, is one of the few Republicans who's spoken against using force in Libya. He said Sunday the success of the airstrikes against Moammar Qadhafi's air defenses hasn't convinced him that getting involved there is a good idea.
Lugar warned that the U.S. is investing huge sums of money in a foreign endeavor at a time when the domestic economy is still struggling."It’s a strange time," he said. "Almost all of our congressional days are spent on budget deficits, outrageous problems. Yet, at the same time, all of this passes, which is a very expensive operation."
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That’s the same point I made on a n earlier post. This is just more spending and for what? The GOP leadership is asleep at the switch for not being against going into Libya and pulling troops out of Iraq and Afghestan. Beome the anti-war party now because we’ve spent enough blood and treasure in the Middle East.
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