Quote Originally Posted by Ronin View Post
So they are doing fine...as long as the other side doesn´t use it's forces.....now that's quite an achievement.
Well, considering they rapidly seemed to be winning the war two weeks ago and took (and have held) the second largest city...it seems to me that it is only because of Gaddafi's spending spree for foreign mercs and equipment that he has been pushing them back. My point is that when it was army vs rebels rebels held their own. Now that its army, mercs, tanks, aircraft vs rebels, of course they are going to do badly. I don't mind evening the playing field a bit and actually seeing this civil war consist of Libyans vs Libyans.


what the hell is a fair chance in a war setting?....war is not a game of cricket...."fair" in war means you make the other guy die and your guys come back in one piece.
Libyan's should be fighting the Libyan government and the Libyan army for whatever causes they are fighting for, not hordes of european and south african mercs. If it was up to me, I would have told Saudi Arabia to get the **** out of Bahrain and let the gov/army of Bahrain handle its own citizens. I guess I misspoke when I said "fair". I just want self determination of a people to be determined by its actual people, not money. If the rebels are disorganized and fail hard, fine. If the only reason they lose is because we didn't stop the rich king pin from hiring armies from across the world to do his bidding for him, that's ******** imo.


I get it, people are pissed we are getting involved in the middle east again. We are spending money on arabs again and we are committing soldiers to the middle east again. But like I said earlier, this is not Iraq or Afghanistan as long as we hold to the UN resolution and not send in ground troops. If the rebels fail, then that is it. And either they will fail within a month, or they will kill gaddafi by the end of april.