“I’m glad it ended the way it did. If we would have kept American air power in the fight it would have been over quicker. Let’s get in on the ground. There is a lot of money to be made in the future in Libya. A lot of oil to be produced. Let’s get on the ground and help the Libyan people establish a democracy and a functioning economy based on free market principles. When it comes to weapons control. We need to get teams on the ground now that can assist this government to make sure that this stuff doesn’t fall into wrong hands. We don’t have much of a presence. There is an opening, get people on the ground.”
“It’s a great opportunity to start over in Libya. These opportunities come once in a generation. From my point of view, we need as many people on the ground as the Libyan people will welcome to shape the next few months…We have $34 billion in frozen assets they can pay us back, we need medical care, a hospital ship, a hospital ship would be a great opportunity for us to win hearts and minds of the Libyan people, they need to disband the militia and train a professional army, we can help there. So seize the moment.”
While I, as a humanitarian, appreciate his desire to help the Libyan people, not to mention his belief that doing so will lower oil prices, I wonder why he was initially against the mission, why he refuses to give Obama any credit and why he is one of countless Republicans who are against infrastructure spending in our own damn country.
Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough put it best earlier today when he said, "Republicans are against investment and infrastructure . . . unless you are investing in infrastructure outside of America."
Sources: Addicting Info, Miami Herald, TPM
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