Amazing, given all that popular will for Qaddafi’s overthrow.
good point.
...and what silly person, said way back in March,
that it would take “days, not weeks” to end the tyranny?
(not to mention, NATO itself is responsible for more civilian deaths, than Qaddafi was even accused of...)
Popular will is of very questionable military value. In itself it is not decisive. We who live in long-established democracies have a hard time conceiving of how little value it has, when the contest is a matter of blood and not ballots.
Conquerors tend to have qualities that let them overcome popular will. Gaddafi and his backers are that sort of people, at least compared to the mass of the Libyan people. I don’t doubt the Libyans want them gone, but they certainly could not do it without outside help.
That will existed only among AQ supporters in Cyrenaica (Eastern Libya) and among looters in London, Paris, Rome and Washington, DC.
What is amazing that Gaddafi green flags are flying today even in Dernah, the AQ heartland where he was never popular.
The only solution is to divide Libya 4:1, send NTC rats back to Benghazi and let the majority of Libyans choose the government they want.
British looters have snatched the oil contracts already.
I guess my comment about the popular will behind the Libyan putsch needed a sarc tag. Disappointing.