A rational strategic assessment would never devote sizable military, diplomatic, economic, and alliance resources to a civil war in Libya.
Jim Risch
The Public Record
Jim Risch is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Idaho since 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Risch previously held the position of lieutenant governor of Idaho from 2006 to 2009 and served in the Idaho State Senate from 2002 to 2006. Throughout his career, he has focused on issues such as government accountability and land management, reflecting the interests of his constituents in Idaho.
The President has not made the case that the Libya intervention is in the vital interests of the United States.
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I really really want to support the administration on this. When we're talking about these matters, we're all Americans and it's important that we pull the wagon together.
I'm not there. I'd like a better understanding of who it is that we're helping here.
I think that the goal here is we have an opportunity for movement which was not impelled by these forces to make sure, or at least to substantially increase, the chances that it doesn't go in that direction.
Do you really believe that if we withdraw our military might, which apparently we're going to today or tomorrow, whenever it's going to be, and Qadhafi stays in power and the rebels collapse, that there isn't going to be a humanitarian…
If we're going to start killing people on behalf of someone, I want to not get to know them better. I want to know who they are before the trigger is pulled.
Stopping proliferation is the utmost priority of the United States Government.
The profits are very modest compared to the harm that can be done internationally.
One cannot help but think that those that live in Gaza have to look across and see what is happening in the West Bank and say, look, what they are doing is working and what we are doing is not working, how can we move more in that…
The United States has stood by Israel as its partner and ally since its creation.





