Stop the Warring, I want to get off

by YankeeJim | March 19, 2011 at 09:54 pm

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While you were out

I stopped writing NowPublic content last week because readership has been declining. If there is no audience and no response, what is the point?

Since I have been away, writing a new book as I am in the wee hours of Sunday morning, Japan is on the brink of destruction. I wonder about my friends in Japan at Tokyo’s Nippon University in Ichigaya where I have presented instruction in the past as part of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperative (APEC). I am particularly concerned about Professor Yoshio Sugasawa from whom I have not heard and his wife Yumi.

As expected, the USA is militarily engaged in attacks on Libya as part of the international coalition. Gadhafi’s days are numbered. I don’t know why we have not just taken him out, even if by “accident.”

Anyway, if NP readers want to know what is happening in my world, I am glad to respond with a story. But, I am on strike, so to speak, as I have to have an audience.

Whack Gadahfi and let’s go home

“U.S. Joins French and Coalition Forces Launching Tomahawk Missiles on Libya

Updated at 3:49 PM ET. U.S. military, already at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, launches missiles against Gadhafi's forces in Libya, defense official says.

BENGHAZI, Libya – After pro-Gadahfi forces were reported attacking rebels early Saturday, officials from France, Britain, United States and the Arab world agreed to launch an attack on Gadahfi forces.

United in their agreement to attack Libyan forces was approved after world leaders met in Paris on Saturday to discuss the “no-fly” zone resolution that was passed by the U.N. on Friday.

It was only two hours after the meeting when French air forces were seen hovering over the city of Benghazi. According to a French official, one of the first strikes came from a fighter jet that fired on a Libyan military vehicle. "Our planes are already preventing air attacks on the city," said French President Nicholas Sarkozy said. "Our determination is total.

When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked at the meeting in Paris if the United States goal is to overthrow Gadhafi’s regime, she reportedly did not answer saying it is the aim of Western powers to protect the civilians in Libya. "If the international community is to have credibility ... then action must take place," Clinton said during a news conference. "We have every reason to fear that left unchecked, Gadhafi will commit unspeakable atrocities."

Over the skies of Benghazi, dramatic pictures of a pro-Gadahfi warplane crashing to the ground in Behghazi have been captured. NBC News' Jim Maceda confirmed on the TODAY show that authorities are still trying to determine if the jet was shot down by Gadhafi forces, rebels on the ground or if the jet suffered a malfunction. Rebels were seen cheering when it crashed.

Al Jazeera recently reported French warplanes have also hit four tanks that have been used by pro-Gadahfi forces on the outskirts of Benghazi. Other reports of military action have come in from witnesses in Bengazi, in the east of the country who said they heard very large explosions on Saturday along with Al Jazeera's correspondents reporting multiple explosions and plumes of smoke in the sky.

Mustafa Abdel Jalil, head of the opposition National Libyan Council, told Al Jazeera "there is a bombardment by artillery and rockets on all districts of Benghazi".

Ahmad Shabani, a spokesman for the Libyan opposition's national council, told Al Jazeera the opposition feels more hopeful now that allied forces are being seen.

"We are very happy about that, hopefully it's not late... and hopefully it makes a difference," he said”