The Obama administration is reportedly actively considering arming the Libyan rebels without even knowing for certain who they really are

The New Obama Doctrine: Arming Our Enemies?

by Joseph Klein
Posted on March 30 2011 2:45 pm

The Obama administration is reportedly actively considering arming the Libyan rebels without even knowing for certain who they really are. http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/view ... sp?id=1275 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who met on Tuesday in London with a senior rebel leader and made clear that Col. Qaddafi must go, admitted that:

We don’t know as much as we would like to know.

However, what we do know at this point is alarming enough to stop any Commander-in-Chief with America’s best interests in mind from even considering providing arms to these rebels. But not necessarily our current Commander-In-Chief, heralding his new Obama Doctrine of deferring to international consensus on how far we go in fulfilling internationally defined ‘humanitarian’ military missions.

A senior administration official is quoted in the New York Times today as saying: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/30/world ... MkMSi83jrw

Al Qaeda in that part of the country is obviously an issue.

The military commander of NATO, Adm. James G. Stavridis, told a Senate hearing on Tuesday that there were “flickersâ€