Read an alarming report from ABC News that the US might arm the Libyan rebels, the source was the US UN’s Ambassador Susan Rice. This would be a major mistake, the historical case study that it brings to mind is the following, Afghanistan = Cold War = Taliban/Al Qaeda. Lets be clear not against arming the rebels on the whole, but it should be old low grade stuff, nothing that can be turned on a Western Army in the future. The rebels have to be trained and armed, they are not going to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi on their own. The Libyan War is a Civil War, lets make sure that those replace Gaddafi are secular democrats, not religious nuts as occurred in Iran in 1979. If Air power on its own cant take down the Mad Dog then the Allies will have to look again at ground troops, nothing big, but a small professional forces made up of Special Forces from the US, UK and France, they should be used to help the rebels in the Gaddafi supporting areas of Libya. Otherwise folks this conflict could last well in to next year, and next year is a Presidential Election year.
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