With another failed Gadhafi offensive against the city of Misrata came another series of complaints from rebel fighters in the city, saying that NATO is not offering sufficient support in the seemingly endless conflict.
The Gadhafi regime’s forces hit the city with shells and killed at least a dozen rebel fighters, wounding a number of others. Such attacks are not a serious threat to reclaim the city, but rather reflect the reality of a stalemated civil war, with both sides making largely fruitless offensives that never seem to involve any changes in territory.
NATO for its part has repeatedly escalated its involvement in the conflict, but mostly by launching more attacks against the capital city of Tripoli. These attacks too seem to blow a lot of things up but don’t seem to make any serious changes to the landscape of the war.
And indeed, with NATO forces threatening to expand the war into attacks on the rebels as well, it seems like there is no argument to be made that they have been anything resembling a stabilizing influence. In fact the one change on the ground NATO can likely take credit for is keeping the rebels from accepting African Union attempts to mediate a ceasefire.
No you idiot/s they are waiting to see how much of that $53 billion dollars can be stolen by NATO before they are going to give you idiots a penny per dollar they steal. This war from the beginning was and is about the Libya peoples money.., is about African Union dividing it and you Muslims Brotherhood being fooled by Hillary Clinton.., there is no democracy nor morally correct about you or for that matter NATO aggression toward Arab nations.., look what they did to Iraq by bombing it to ruins, look what they are doing in Afghanistan.., if you idiots think for a moment that you can come clean and not being bombed later by the same NATO which you are asking for help.., then you are dead wrong.
NATO not doing enough for the Libyans fighting Gadhafi…I guess NATO kind of expects them to liberate their country on their own…but why should they, when concerned Western powers (and I mean concerned about the fate of the Libyan people, no more, no less, surely) will ultimately do all the heavy lifting?
Why didn't it happen like Egypt? Tunisia? Was there not enuff popular support for reform?
I was shocked to hear there are only about 1000 rebel fighters. Really?? Only 1000 brave fighters in a supposedly popular uprising. Something is wrong with this picture. No wonder they can't make any progress in their "revolution". At least not without massive NATO bombardment rolling out a carpet of destruction in front of their path. Google "Bernard-henry Levy Libya". Strange bedfellows indeed. Hmm, what have the rebels done so far – well, they've basically already declared a new government that is being recognized by more and more nations of NATO as the legitimate ruler of the Libyan nation. They've set up a Central Bank to help loot the Libyan economy. they have been accepting and clamoring for more and more U.S. and Eruopean "Aid". What happened to those heady days of proud, fired up Libyans declaring this is our revolution and U.S. NATO, stay out? I'm sure there still is a genuine liberation movement, but it's ben coopted by a bunch of sell-out Quislings in collaboration with CIA/MI6/Mossad operatives to capture Libya for Wall Street. With "revolutionaries" like these, who needs a Gaddafi?
And that would be one reason why NATO is threatening (more like planning) to hit them too at the same time they hit Qaddafi.