Already bogged down with air superiority? How can you not target artillery from the air? They give off a distinct sound. NATO couldn’t fight its way out of an imaginary box. In Afghanistan nato isaf is referred to as I suck at fighting. How can we already be calling it a stalemate? Its a good thing we didn’t fight the soviets they would have rolled over us and stalemated at the french border. For christ’s sake. We and our allies couldn’t win a war to save our skins if it came to it.
It is called rules of engagement. Have you tried looking over the other posts in the thread? The Gadaffi forces know that they can place their artillery and armor in amongst civilian infrastructure that NATO can’t strike at. The whole point is to prevent civilian casualties in those areas of Misrata.
Yes every single Gaddafi armor and artillery position in Misrata could be targeted, but at what cost? Put yourself in the shoes of those tasked with the job. If for example a Grad or self propelled howitzer is located active in Misrata on the streets and then driven into a civilian building to hide then it is difficult to target that building. That is where the rules of engagement come into play. Misrata on both sides is still full of civilians. If you target the building that artillery piece is hiding inside then you could also be killing a family sheltering within that building. That is the whole reason why you have such strict rules of engagement.
Some examples from Misrata of where Gaddaffi hid some of his armour within buildings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fu0gSKSbyE