British & American Evacuation Efforts In Libya

The British have dispatched the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force (RAF) and their elite Special Air Service (SAS) to evacuate British citizens from Libya. The SAS was ordered into Libya on Thursday to oversee the evacuation of hundreds of British nationals as the government’s response to the crisis.

Nearly 500 Britons were successfully repatriated throughout the day after three RAF Hercules transport aircraft and a Royal Navy frigate were pressed into action. The frigate HMS Cumberland set sail from Benghazi with 200 British evacuees on board. Rescue efforts went underway late into the night, and the government indicated that it was close to getting everybody out.

According to The Daily Telegraph report, British Special Forces were on the ground in Tripoli to ensure that the safe evacuation of all British nationals went smoothly. SAS officers offered support and advice to private security firms drafted to rescue more than 170 oil workers stranded in remote desert compounds.

That is how the government of a world power is supposed to take care of its people!

So, what did Barack Hussein Obama, the Commander-in-Chief of the mightiest military the modern world, do? The 45th President of the United States rented a ferry. Seriously! The U. S. State Department chartered a ferry to take the hundreds of waiting Americans to Malta. However, rough seas have delayed the ferry’s departure.

A ferry? The USA has the biggest navy and air force in the world, and all that the wimp in the White House can do is rent a ferry, as if this were some excursion in the bay instead of an evacuation in the middle of a civil war?

Someone offered the argument in Obama's defense that Obama was not doing more because "he didn’t want to do something that might set Qaddafi off to take revenge on Americans". Really!

That obviously is not a concern to the Brits who sent in their SAS, Navy, and RAF to evacuate their citizens, while the US government rented a ferry. Unbelievable!

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