BBC News: Reports that the UK Coalition Government has stated in the House of Commons that no decision has been taken to send Apache Helicopters to Libya. One gets the impression that France was trying to bounce the UK in further escalation of the War in Libya. An interesting article in the Times ( pay wall ) noted that France has a kind of War Power Resolution Act that was force the President to seek a vote of approval from the French Parliament for further operations in Libya after July. Thus both France and the US have a political need for this War to be over fast, while in the UK the Coalition will face a growing opposition from the Conservative backbenches over any escalation in the War. There are Presidential Elections in France and the US in 2012, thus Gaddafi has to go before then, Obama would look like a one trick pony if Gaddafi was still in power, and Assad of Syria was still repressing his people. Thus folks expect movement on the Libyan front, more do with the political than military reasons, everything is political folks.
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