This article is highlighting a simple truth, that Europe is not ready to go it alone without the USA. When it comes to making war on a large scale, nobody does it better than the yanks.

Gates warns of 'dismal future' for NATO without urgent changes
AFGHANISTAN

June 10, 2011|By Tim Lister, CNN

Robert Gates criticized NATO readiness and resources but praised governments that had helped in Afghanistan.
Outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says NATO has become a "two-tiered" alliance poorly equipped to deal with challenges, and with members either unable or unwilling to carry out agreed missions in Afghanistan and Libya.

In his farewell speech Friday to the NATO Council in Brussels, Gates pulled few punches in listing the shortcomings of the alliance.

In particular, he drew a contrast between those members "willing and able to pay the price and bear the burdens of alliance commitments, and those who enjoy the benefits of NATO membership ... but don't want to share the risks and the costs."

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-06-10/politics/gates.nato_1_nato-membership-nato-council-gates?_s=PM OLITICS

A pro-Qaddafi propaganda source?

Really?

And just days before Tripoli fell at that.

I was just spooked by the use of a news agency which was used extensively as Pro-regime propaganda during the war.

You probably should have posted this link in the first place.

NATO does NOTHING without the approval and support of the US.
Period.

The US simply used NATO as a blind to camouflage its program of Regime Change in Libya
by piggy backing on the legitimate uprisings of the Arab Spring.
NATO was nothing beyond the illusion of Credible Deniability for the PR wing of the US Government.

BTW: Does anybody know what is currently happening in Libya?
These links are


Al Qaeda flags and "rebels" openly celebrating in Benghazi


Al Qaeda flags flying over government offices in Benghazi



US Military Transports "on the ground" in Libya


The ethnic cleansing continues unabated in Western Libya,
and Sharia Law is being imposed in the provinces.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8844819/Libyas-liberation-interim-ruler-unveils-more-radical-than-expected-plans-for-Islamic-law.html





...but, the Oil is flowing to the Western Corporations,
the IMF has had their last roadblock to the Looting of Northern Africa removed,

So guess what they mean by saying "NATO" needs to upgrade their equipment. MIC trying to rob more money from the US and other European countries.

The flags were NOT Al Qaeda. They were flown for 2-3 hours on the Benghazi courthouse before being taken down.

The Western banks lost the money BEFORE the uprising.

The government has taken over the prisons, and prisoners are being treated properly.

If you have anything to say, make sure it is correct and current.

And if you cannot find current stuff, here is a good source:

http://tweepforum.ly/

And btw, most Libyans are grateful to NATO.

...because there is a black out on hard news from inside Libya.
If you can provide credible news sources from inside Libya,
I'm listening, especially for documentation that "most" Libyans are grateful to NATO.

Certainly the people flying the Al Qaeda flags and celebrating in the streets of Benghazi are grateful to NATO.
I don't doubt THAT. You can see it in their faces.


The last credible source I read (Human Rights Watch) reported the Ethnic Cleansing was continuing unabated in Western Libya with no intervention by the Rebel "transitional" "government". I can find very little hard information except from the Human Rights Watch documentation of the ongoing atrocities and War Crimes.