2,700 air strikes?

[reorg]

WTF.

The roadside from Benghazi to Ajdabiya is still littered with the carcasses of burned-out armored vehicles. But months after William Hague was suggesting that Gaddafi was already en route for Venezuela he is still in Tripoli.

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Three months after the start of the Libyan uprising Gaddafi's troops have failed to capture Misrata, but the rebels do not look capable of advancing towards Tripoli. They have broken the siege of Misrata partly because their militiamen now clutch hand radios and can call in Nato air strikes. This close air support is effective and is along the lines of the tactical air support given by the US to the Northern Alliance soldiers in Afghanistan in 2001 and the Kurdish peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq two years later.

Gaddafi's troops, with which he tries to control this vast country, number only 10,000 to 15,000. This is not always obvious to anybody who is not an eyewitness because the foreign press on the spot is bashful about mentioning that there are sometimes more journalists than fighters at the front.

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The aim of Nato intervention was supposedly to limit civilian casualties, but its leaders have blundered into a political strategy that makes a prolonged conflict and heavy civilian loss of life inevitable.

http://counterpunch.com/patrick05232011.html

I can't believe there are still people cheering this on.

[theoldman]

1. What is your solution?

when you have a tiger by the tail it is difficult to let go. Eventually someone has to give up.

[Fool Count]

3. The solution is simple -stop the unjustified

military intervention and let Lybians fight it out on their own terms. That will very likely result in quick, easy and relatively bloodless
victory by pro-Qaddafi forces. Why is that a problem?

[Monk06]

2. This has nothing to do with Gaddafi's brutality. He's always been brutal. It's an oil war

BP and Elf want back in the North African oil game. BP
especially since they got kicked out of Iran in 1953
first by the Iranians and then by the Americans