Quadaffi’s Army - sounds like one of those bands that
play The Catalyst on weekday nights.
The people are no longer afraid of him. He will be defeated.
Just curious when the NYT might declare that there is some sort of civil war going on there.
ML/NJ
“brought Libya closer to civil war”
They don’t think that’s going on now?
Why doesn't anyone want to see more constitutional republics around the world? Is it really in our national interest to sow the seeds of socialism and communism all over the planet?
Wholly agree with you. Not knowing what sort of gov’t will replace Ghadaffi is not nearly as bitter a pill to swallow as his being victorious and remaining in power. Obama froze 80 billion in his funds today, we should keep it.
Uhhh, the hysterical headline really doesn’t match the details in the story. This big offensive the NY Times is so breathless about consists apparently of fewer than a dozen pick up trucks and 2 jets which missed their targets. D-Day this ain’t. If this is the best GaDaffy Duck can muster, he better start practicing his feet kicking routine for once the trap door opens up from under him.
no way let the muzzies kill each other then get him
I’d be in favor of an intervention to save our friends in Libya, but all three of them are in Turkey right now.
Removal of Gadaffy means an opportunity for something better, and that’s a good thing.
If I were a Libyan woman whose man was out there fighting tonight, I’d be thinking that American intervention on his behalf might get him home alive, and that’s another good thing.
No fly zone, freezing of assets, air strike...these are pretty safe measures for Americans to take.
Most especially I’d take Gadaffy’s frozen assets and apply them to food and medical aid to the opposition. It need not cost us anything, and might earn us some good will.
Death to the socialist muslim terrorist Qaddafi!
US keep out.
It won’t be long before some of those jet pilots defect... with their jets.
We’d have been rocking Tripoli by now if GWB were in charge. Or even Clinton.
“”I see this as the more democracies we have in hostile lands the less fighting my grandchildren will have to do.””
What country over there beside Israel has ever had a functioning government and cared FOR THEIR PEOPLE??? I am not optimistic that any change in any country in Africa or the ME will ever be able to stand by itself or treat their people fairly. It’s always been a platform for despots and dictators...collect foreign aid from the US, salt it away, and govern as they want UNTIL the day comes and we have what we see today in Lybia and the past few weeks in Egypt and Tunisia.
None of us want our children/grandchildren to go to war but if attitudes don’t change here in our own country about the dangers we face from within and without, they will have no choice but to fight on our own soil - possibly on our southern border. Not a pleasant thought but if it’s not there, it will be in our cities fighting the muslims our country welcomes and invites into our country - visa and scholarships to foreign students indeed! Can we get any crazier?
Psssst,,, hey author, when you are being attacked by special forces, regular army units, and tactical aircraft,,, i wouldn’t say that they are getting close to a civil war!
Closer to civil war?
I’d like to know how much closer they could get........
The US is now an amoral feckless enterprise. It can’t do anything meaningful to support the rebels in Libya and wouldn’t really know what to do anyway. It’s probably gonna be a bloodbath. Just like the US is a sure-thing to go financially belly-up. But you’re not gonna get real action and meaningful solutions until you get moral leadership.
Without moral leadership, you got nothing.
Read what Islamderthal Anjem Choudary has to say about democracy.