Civil War in Libya

[Sarmatian]

That means leaving Gaddafi be. The free Libyan people requested us, the outside world, to intervene. Did you not see the celebrations when the UN resolution was announced? We do not heed the wishes of a mad dictator who is willing to sacrifice his own people for his own sake - but rather we act at the request of the Libyan people.

The question is whether or not you think you yourself know better than the Libyan people what is right to do?


I don't think they would appreciate your knee-jerk responses in neither Benghazi nor Misurata, that is for sure.

Since when is the minority that took up arms considered Free Libyan People? 600,000 people of Benghazi speak for the rest 6,000,000 people of Libya?

Who are those rebels, what are their aims, who are their leaders, where did they get their weapons, how are they organized, why were they showing old flags of Libya when it was protectorate of the west etc, etc...? We don't know anything about them except the fact that they are against Gadaffi.

It smells of another self-serving operation of the west in the most oil-rich African country, using a tried recipe that consist of deposing current regime and planting a puppet and having western companies in charge of oil and gas resources. China was already buying 11% of Libya oil and the percentage was growing, we can't have that, can we...