Fox’s Shep Smith Is Not Happy With This Libya ‘Not-War’

Shepard Smith is eager to learn more details about the American strategy and objective in Libya and asked reporters Jennifer Griffin and Jonathan Hunt to help clue him in regarding the administration’s perspective. When both Griffin and Hunt told Shep that more information was still being learned to fill “knowledge gaps,” Shep began to get frustrated.

Given the speculation that there may be “flickers of Al-Qaeda” amongst the Libyan rebels against Gaddafi and given that just this morning Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice said they “have not ruled out” arming the same rebels, Shep was understandably confused. Shep wondered “why don’t any of these leaders just stand up and tell the truth: that we don’t have any idea who these opposition people are because we don’t.”

Throughout the rest of the segment, Shep sarcastically refers to the Libyan conflict as a “not-war” to mimic the leaders who have avoided calling it a “war” and to emphasize his discontent.

Watch the clip from Fox News below:

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