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Originally Posted by Stan187
What's your point? We sold them Tomcats prior to the revolution, they were out allies then.
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One of my main criticisms of US military foreign policy is that we really do not employ much foresight into what our "allies" will be doing five years from now. Trust me, I have no zeal for training Iraqis who I will have to fight in a few years, if not weeks, after training them.
I would also say that Europe generally has a much more favorable position with terror sponsoring states such as Libya than the US. Europe is generally hostile towards Israel, which has some appeal to the other 99% of the Middle East that tacitly agrees with the Iranian approach of destroying Israel.
That a European country wants to ally itself materially with Libya really doesn't shock me quite frankly.