[Newsbot]

Title: West inching closer to ground troops in Libya
Category: World
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2011-04-19 15:41:36

[GreenTiger]

"We are just sending in advisors." That is how it starts.

[ShepherdsDog]

WTF

[Hawkes]

Please no...

[Gunnair]

By 'West' they better mean Europeans and Arabs.

[ShepherdsDog]

let the wops and frogs deal with it, as it's 'their' gas and their backyard....and so their problem.

[GreenTiger]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

let the wops and frogs deal with it, as it's 'their' gas and their backyard....and so their problem.

I would phrase that slightly differently, but essentially essentially you are correct.

[martin14]

Another mistake to get even deeper into this clusterfuck.

[Public_Domain]

[HyperionTheEvil]

It was inevitable really, not any less depressing but inevitable.

[ShepherdsDog]

Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:

Eurasia, Eastasia, Eurasia, Eastasia, Eurasia...

not sure what your point is or if there really is one

[xerxes]

At this point, why pussyfoot around. NATO should just send in ground troops, forcibly evict Gadhafi from Libya, and leave the second he's dead or gone and leave it to the rebels.

[GreenTiger]

xerxes xerxes:

At this point, why pussyfoot around. NATO should just send in ground troops, forcibly evict Gadhafi from Libya, and leave the second he's dead or gone and leave it to the rebels.

The only problem with that is that in Libya you have a number of tribes who can barely agree on the time of day let alone setting up a constitutional government for a society that has no experience on how to make a democracy work.

If NATO goes in and kills "The Colonel" and immediately leaves what is going to fill the power vacuum? I would hate to see 6 months after NATO leaves another similar thug take his place.

[andyt]

xerxes xerxes:

At this point, why pussyfoot around. NATO should just send in ground troops, forcibly evict Gadhafi from Libya, and leave the second he's dead or gone and leave it to the rebels.

That's what I thought we were going to do in Astan. (Get Bin Laden and go home). We're still there. For fucking once, if things don't go the way you thought initially, can't we just walk away instead of getting sucked deeper and deeper in the mire. Or at least wait until every last one of our troops are back from Astan and have had a bit of a rest before we ask them to go on another fuckwit adventure?

[GreenTiger]

andyt andyt:

xerxes xerxes:

At this point, why pussyfoot around. NATO should just send in ground troops, forcibly evict Gadhafi from Libya, and leave the second he's dead or gone and leave it to the rebels.

That's what I thought we were going to do in Astan. (Get Bin Laden and go home). We're still there. For fucking once, if things don't go the way you thought initially, can't we just walk away instead of getting sucked deeper and deeper in the mire. Or at least wait until every last one of our troops are back from Astan and have had a bit of a rest before we ask them to go on another fuckwit adventure?

Exactly