Powderkeg is a good descriptor.
Kadaffy has been importing mercenaries out of Chad and other sub-Libya African nations, mainly because they have no compunction about shooting Libyans, where Kadaffy’s fellow tribesmen would. Most of Africa has been armed in one way or another through countries like Libya, and that is one of the reasons that makes a complete lack of American Leadership in this so dangerous.
When this whole thing first started flaring up last Winter, and Kadaffy first started shooting his own Civilians, I was one of the people asking where in hell the US Navy was. Had the United States Navy kept a Nimitz class flight deck and an accompanying strike group in the Med, we would have been in a position to immediately impose a no-fly zone simply by flying CAP over his entire coastline and shooting down any Libyan raghead who was stupid enough to try and fly.
The problem was, and still is, that we do not have a carrier present in the Med for the first time in some 30 plus years, and the extended conflict in Libya, that is rapidly spreading South into areas of Africa that were extremely unstable in the first place, is a natural consequence of the decisions that have been made in the Oval Office.
This is one of the results of losing an election.
This is one of the results of allowing the other Party to pick you candidate.
This is one of the results of having your Secretary of State flying around the World holding tupperware parties while “Special Advisers” to the (P)resident are really calling the shots.
This is one of the results of electing the least qualified guy in any room he walks into, to the highest office in the land, and handing him all of the keys to the Kingdom.
It isn’t nuclear weapons or ICBMs we need to be worried about, it is homemade IEDs based on the millions of conventional weapons that are widely available all over the world because of dictators like Libya’s Kadaffy, but the real guy to blame is the one who thinks he is leading from the rear...
Premier “Hindmost” Hussein....
That is all.