Reply #61: Libya unique - Gates [View All]

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14:20 Al Jazeera English US defence secretary Robert Gates says military action in Libya does not set a precedent for future intervention in other Middle Eastern countries facing uprisings or unrest. During a visit to the Marez Camp US military base in northern Iraq, he told reporters: “What has made Libya unique is first of all a request, which is unprecedented in my experience, of the Arab League actually asking for an intervention in the Middle East, to take on an Arab government mistreating its own people … It’s hard for me to imagine those kinds of circumstances being replicated any place else.”

http://www.libyafeb17.com/2011/04/april-8th-updates/