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Originally Posted by Gozer
Yes.
The Americans have a red light for pretty much any military operations outside their current few. I don't think I need to expand on that.
Knowing the Americans want to sit this one out, France or Germany or any other country should have been acting as soon as Gaddafi's violence started.
Not after a sit-down at the UN with America.
The reluctance to get involved suggests to me that they didn't want to go into Iraq for the same reasons these nations were slow to act on Libya. (not really sure what that reason is though, maybe they just don't want to fund the fight)
Am I off base on this?
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France has been more than eager to get involved since the beginning of this conflict. Sarkozy was the first to acknowledge the Libyan National Council as the defacto representative of the country. In fact, they discussed with Britain a "bilateral" action against Ghaddafi if nothing could be come to with the UN. Germany, on the other hand, has been the exact opposite -- they've made their disagreement with any UN resolution known since the beginning.
The fact is that war against Muslim nations or Muslim regimes is a complicated thing in this day and age, and European nations simply do not have the capability these days to go to war alone.