These are the anti-Kadafi forces.....
The people he brutally repressed....
Throwing them a little logistically support, intelligence info and maybe some shoulder held ground to air missiles would help even the score.... If these guy's win, Kadafi's head will be on a stick....
Maybe so, but who exactly are "these guys"? How do we know they aren't more radical that Daffy? Seems well established that the so-called "Muslim Brotherhood" are the ones stirring up all the unrest across the region and it's well known that they don't play nice. What gives us the right to interfere in a sovereign nation's civil war anyway? Not to mention the fact that we don't have the money to spend. Libya certainly deserves a level 5 ass whoopin' courtesy of the USA for their role in Pan Am 103, but it seems a little late to be going to that party.....
There are times when the enemy of your enemy is NOT your friend, but just another enemy you will eventually have to fight. Think Hitler vs Stalin.
Whether the guys who you want to give Stingers to would be people who would shoot down an airliner, you cannot guarantee that they would not sell an extra Stinger or two to others. Once the Jihadis have Stingers, you also cannot guarantee that they will not bring them across our porous borders and shot something down in the US.