It is a recurring theme since the massive protests in East Libya became a civil war – the rebel forces are full of vigor, but light on experience. Indeed, they are so disorganized that they can’t stand up to the regime’s forces.
One would have assumed, over a month later, that the rebels had gotten their act together. This appears not to be the case, however, as Western nations, particularly the US, are warning that the rebels remain “hopelessly” disorganized.
The rebels have some defectors, but their rank and file are largely student protesters turned would-be fighters. They seem to be able to keep the regime out of their capital of Benghazi, but attempts at an offensive always stall.
US officials say that is unlikely to change, and while NATO is backing the rebels with air support, it could take many years from them to have a fighting force capable of conquering the western cities.
In that case and only because they're in disarray, then, it's okay to invade, stay for 10 or 20 years, kill 1 or 2 million of them rascals, build a few military bases and steal as much oil as possible. But, I stress, only because they're in disarray, if they weren't, then…hmmm…well, I suppose we'd have to get them to be in disarray.
I say let's start a pool as to when the US "officially" takes control of the ground effort to overthrow Gadhafi. My guess is May 1st.
And for the guess closest to the correct date, the winner – well, there are no winners. We all lose.
What difference does it make to America? This government we serve obviously has an agenda that doesn't take the American people's well being in mind. Obama want Gadaffi's oil, like Bush wanted Saddams oil, pure and simple. The "In God We Trust" country is acting like Nazi Germany or Communist Russia, like it was concieved in hell. first there's the states and then there's the District of Criminals (DC)
same problem as NATO – don't know who the boss is.
But the problem is still that the Pentagon aims to achieve a disarming first strike capability – and without Nuclear Winter – that´s the reason they put the MX warhead on Minuteman-3, it´s designed-just like the D5 on Trident-2 – to minimize nuclear winter effects when used against missile silos. Trident missile engineer Bob Aldridge -www.plrc.org-wrote on the missiles to be deployed on ships in the Black Sea in Bulgaria and in Romania and Poland by 2015: "Whether they are on ships or land, they are still a necessary component for an unanswerable first strike". The Russian countermove will be Launch On Warning and we´ll probably commit suicide by mistake/accident because the Pentagon aims to achieve an unanswerable first strike capability.
Each day I have respect for Ghadaffi.
The man`s clearly a bit crazy, but he`s held power for 42 years and his forces are holding their ground against the might of NATO air power.
If he wins this thing then he`ll be full marks for the victory.