Civil War in Libya

[LeftEyeNine]

I see, so they are apparently unaware of what kind of a hell USA turned Iraq into after their much-celebrated intervening.

Let me put it this way. Take the least geopolitically and economically important country as an example and let it boil up like that, if UN/NATO/YourFavoriteHumanitarianArmedForcesWithAbsolutelyNoIntentionOfExploit makes a full-fledged and decisive aid, then I was a death-to-usa-suicide-monger all along.

[PanzerJaeger]

I see, so they are apparently unaware of what kind of a hell USA turned Iraq into after their much-celebrated intervening.

Point of order. The Iraqis plunged Iraq into hell. America drug them out of it kicking and screaming.

Arab league now criticizes the actions of the US and others. Get a grip, what did they expect?

What did you expect? This is not atypical behavior from the Arab League. This will become so distorted that by the end of it the average man on the arab street will hate the West even more. It's already happening.

"What is happening in Libya differs from the aim of imposing a no-fly zone, and what we want is the protection of civilians and not the bombardment of more civilians," Amr Moussa said, announcing an emergency Arab League meeting to discuss Libya.

The overthrow of Mubarak in Egypt and Tunisia's Zine al Abidine bin Ali -- as well as mass protests against leaders in Yemen and Bahrain -- have restored a dormant Arab pride which was crushed by decades of autocracy and foreign intervention.

But many people in the Arab world, while anxious to see the end of Gaddafi's rule, felt that the resort to Western military action has tarnished Libya's revolution.

"Who will accept that foreign countries attack an Arab country? This is something shameful," said Yemeni rights activist Bashir Othman.

Support for military action was also muted by deep-seated suspicions that the West is more concerned with securing access to Arab oil supplies than supporting Arab aspirations.

"They are hitting Libya because of the oil, not to protect the Libyans," said Ali al-Jassem, 53, in the village of Sitra in Bahrain, where protests by the Shi'ite Muslim majority against the Sunni ruling Al-Khalifa family have triggered military reinforcement by neighbouring Gulf Arab forces.

In other news, yay for interminable conflict! As I said, the UN resolution doesn't say what a lot of people here think it says. If Qaddafi wants to stay in power, there is little we can do to stop him, and now we're committed to the indefinite protection of a failed insurgency.

After French jets destroyed four Libyan tanks outside the de facto rebel capital of Benghazi on Saturday, according to French defense sources, Qaddafi promised to attack Mediterranean targets. His defiance of UN Resolution 1973 comes as European and American leaders back off calls for the strongman's ouster.

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe Sunday said coalition military “operations will continue in the days to come, until the Libyan regime accepts the UN resolution,” but he added that the ouster of the 41-year-ruler was not the signal purpose.

Qaddafi staying in power is "certainly potentially one outcome," Admiral Mullen told NBC's "Meet the Press," adding that the UN-approved airstrikes "are limited and it isn't about seeing him go."

Pentagon officials and the White House are at pains to describe the UN-sanctioned venture as a European-led operation to save the lives of Libyans.

Speaking from Brazil on Saturday night, President Obama described the attacks as a “limited military action” employing a “broad coalition” that is European led, and that the decision to go ahead “is not an outcome we sought… But we can’t stand idly by when a tyrant tells his people that there will be no mercy.”