New York, NY – Representative Jerrold Nadler thinks the United States and its allies sent a “very bad message” to Iran by assisting in the effort to oust Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafy.
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“What message were we sending, whether we intended to send it or not?” Nadler asked a crowd of Israel supporters at the Agudath Israel breakfast on Monday morning.
Nadler, a liberal on most things who is nevertheless a hawk on Israel, prefaced his comments about Khadafy by saying, “I’m going to say one thing that may be unpopular here.”
Nadler’s argument about American involvement in Libya was that the lesson for embattled regimes like Iran’s is that Khadafy’s cooperation with weapons inspectors, in the wake of the Iraq War, ultimately did him no good. The lesson other dictators will take from his death at the hands of an angry mob, Nadler said, is that the only true protection against interference from the West comes from possessing nuclear weapons.
“Khadafy is a terrible guy who since 2003 gave up his nuclear weapons program, brought in inspectors and agreed to cooperate, and did cooperate, with the United States and others, since about 2003,” Nadler said. “He was a terrible tyrant at home, granted, but he cooperated abroad.
“We invaded him and overthrew his regime anyway. The message sent? If there’s any mullah in Tehran thinking maybe the sanctions are too tough, maybe we really shouldn’t get nuclear weapons, maybe you know, we don’t need them so much. We just said, ‘yes, you need them. Yes, you need them.’
Watch below Rep. Jerry Nadler spoke about U.S. foreign policy and military action in Libya, during a November 7, 2011 legislative breakfast in Manhattan hosted by Aguda.
America did not kill Khadaffi. We helped to oust him. The fact that he was essentially executed and murdered without a trial is a testimony to the impropriety of even the rebels that are taking control of Libya.
But the message that Iran should get from this is that America is not going to sit down and wait for them to be the depth of inhumanity to the world.
I think we are sending a bad message to Iran by having such people like Nadler in congress!
Jerry Nadler is arguably the brightest member of Congress who truly predicted the disaster in Iraq and was rightly against the invasion saying if we are going to invade it should be Iran. If you think into what he is trying to bring out, you will realize how right he is. unforgivably most don’t.
Congressman Nadler is 100% right. I would go even a step further.
The U.S. shouldn’t have gotten involved in Libya at all.
Congressman Nadler is more than right. We shouldn’t have involved ourselves in Libya at all. Quaddafi was currently no danger at all to the West, while the rebels could very well be.
The US didn’t get involved in Libya. Your wonderful Oybama can’t do anything by himself so he hid behind NATO.
What he’s saying makes 100% sense! We have to think broadly about what our actions mean to both our friends and enemies!
Even though I don’t agree with his argument, he has some valid points. It seems that the US historically does not stick to it’s agreements nor support it’s ally’s; Mubarak, the Kurd s or the Shiites after the the first Iraqi war or the Shah of Iran .
There are two things every Jewish registered Democrat can do to make this world a better place. First is to be sure to not vote for Nadler in the next primary election. The second is, that if he gets the nomination, vote against him in the election. He has been hawkish about Israel. But he has been an Obama echo on everything else. Sorry Obama lovers, but our president has done and said many stupid, sometimes even dangerous things since getting into office. And anyone that runs his public office as an Obama puppet is unacceptable to me. I wish him much success in another career besides politics.
Nadler isn’t 100 percent right but 110 percent I said that all along our politics get stupider and stupider and we r shouting ourselves in the legs
Nadler isn’t 100 percent right but 110 percent I said that all along our politics get stupider and stupider and we r shouting ourselves in the legs
Obama has proved that America’s allies better start looking for a new friend.