Kinetic Military Action
Rich Galen
By Rich Galen | March 25, 2011 | 4:44 AM EDT
There has been so much going on this week, it's almost impossible to make sense of it all in just one column.
First of all, there is the
ongoing non-war in Libya. It is a non-war in which no country appears to want to take control.
President Obama has made it clear that the United States will NOT be the lead dog on this sled, but that it would be a NATO operation. Neither France nor Turkey -- both NATO members -- agree with Obama and don't want NATO to be in charge, and it is not.
According to the Bloomberg news service: “The allies are considering a proposal, backed by France, to create a political steering committee that would oversee military operations using NATO's command structure. It would consist of the 12 nations that have committed to participating.”
Oh, yeah. That will work. Why don't they just let the U.N. General Assembly run this thing?...
The Obama Administration has apparently redefined the word "war" so that only kinetic military action using troops on the ground counts.
That is at odds with the Merriam-Webster Third Unabridged: "A state of usually open and declared armed hostile conflict between political units (as states or nations)"
I think that definition fits what's going on in Libya.
https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/rich-galen/kinetic-military-action