Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have SECRETLY teamed up to launch AIRSTRIKES against Islamist-allied militias battling for control of Tripoli, Libya, four senior American officials said, in a major escalation between the supporters and opponents of political Islam. But what is SURPRISING is not the intervention: after all, hardly a day passes now when there isnt some small to medium political invasion taking place somewhere, in a world in which newsflow no longer affects anything. It is that both countries decided to roundly IGNORE advising the one country which previously had made it quite clear it has explicit national interests in Libya: the United States. The United States, the officials said, was caught by surprise: Egypt and the Emirates, both close allies and military partners, acted WITHOUT INFORMING Washington or seeking its consent, leaving the Obama administration on the sidelines. It gets worse: Egyptian officials explicitly denied the operation to American diplomats, the officials said. It is almost as if the theme of ignoring and/or MOCKING US superpower status, exhibited most recently by both China and Russia, is gradually SPREADING to even the more banana republics around the world. Because while one can debate the pros and cons of any previous administration, it is very much improbably that any regime, especially ones as close to the US as the UAE, and to a lesser extent Egypt, would have conducted such military missions without preclearing with the Pentagon first. So now that the mysterious owners of the punitive bombing raids has been revealed, the next question is: why? The answer is simple - to keep Islamists in check. And since the US CAN NO LONGER BE RELIED ON to do the bidding of formerly key petrodollar allies, the UAE decided to take the law into its own hands. zerohedge/news/2014-08-25/us-furious-after-source-mystery-libya-bombing-raids-revealed
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 22:29:23 +0000
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