Civil War in Libya

[PanzerJaeger]

I say we get the CIA into Libya to smuggle arms to the Rebels. Antitank weapons, antiaircraft weapons, and assault rifles could transform them from an angry mob to an effective killing machine.

Indeed, let's dump a bunch of weapons in to Africa and try to play God in a small third world conflict. And when those weapons end up killing babies in the Congo in 10 years, I'm sure we'll all be suitably outraged. Have we learned nothing? At least when we did this in the Cold War it was based on broader strategic concerns and not pure emotion.

Thankfully, the Obama administration seems to at least understand the concept of plausible deniability. However, the blood and violence wrought with these weapons will always be, in part, on our hands. The service life on a decent AK build can be in excess of 50,000 rounds and/or 40 years. That's a huge liability just to sway the outcome of some marginal North African conflict.

Also, SOCOM is going to have a field day with this. SAS boys getting captured by the very people they were trying to help!