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I figured you'd question the source but honestly
what other element other than pan islamists have anything remotely capable of assuming an organized form to confront Qadaffi?

In these societies, other than the religionists and the military- what are the "dominant" forces that want to hold power? I don't think Qadaffi sent a lot of students to western universities to study Constitutional law, or his military officers to West Point to study civilian-military roles in a democracy. It's not like the CIA has been supporting a “free libya” group of educated western-leaning dissidents for the past 40 - or 2- years, is it? Who exactly has been groomed to takeover

Any Libyan (or any community organizers in Libya) with military organization and leadership skills probably got them fighting alongside or in training camps run by anti-American/anti-Western bad guys sometime over the past 3 decades. and islamic extremism is the common veneer that holds these guys together

I think Cameron may have backed off his calls for war based on Brit asessment that what may follow Qadaffis ouster is either unknown or will be worse for western interests

and what we should always be willing to send Americans to die for is our own western interests, long term or short term. Not “Libyan revolution”.

"I figured you'd question the source but honestly"

I'm not questioning the source. I'm saying that within the same story it quotes one source saying Islamists are taking over and it quotes another source saying that's not true. The reasoning for the person saying that's not true is legit. Because Gadaffi wants to scare the west. He's doing it in his own interviews saying that the revolutionaries are Al Queada.

Lets remember that all the things you are saying about these revolutionaries could have been said about Iraq's people. They were anti western during Sadaams' reign. They were never trained in our military schools etc... Yet, they wanted democracy and they have democracy. Imperfect though it may be.