Those rebels are extremists and believed to be supported by Al Qaeda.
How can we fight Al Qaeda in some countries while acting as their airforce in another?
Our soldiers died fighting them. They went to Iraq from Libya and now back in Libya. American blood is most likely on their hands. Their group is directly responsible for September 11th. How can anybody suggest that we now fight with them and for them?
Don't you think it's strange that all a sudden in these Muslim countries the "civilians" are suddenly getting brave against their dictators? I mean, one country I can see. But all the pro-American (relatively speaking) anti-Al Qaeda dictatorships like Egypt, Lybia, Yemen...this is orchestrated.
The point about who we would find ourselves working with is well taken.
Nevertheless - if the aim is to remove Ghadaffi, then the time to impose a NFZ was then. A NFZ at that stage would have allowed the dubious rebels to depose Ghadaffi without any more work from us. Then we could have dealt with (made deals with) the winners.
But now: removing Ghadaffi requires a NFZ, a NTZ (no Tank zone) and boots on the ground - OR it requires my favoured strategy, a NGZ: (No-Ghadaffi Zone). The whole job just got MUCH tougher, thanks to Bambi.
And as another poster has pointed out, this whole problem might never have come about if Obama hadn’t left Mubarak twisting in the wind - or (better) if he had helped the Iranian revolutionaries.
Decision is a huge factor in war and politics. Even when Obama’s intentions aren’t actually evil, his aims are confused and dilatory and make everything worse. That at least is a mistake that Palin won’t make.