military action against Libya

I don't see the merits of their argument. The only way we could get the Saudis to leave would be to send our own troops in on the ground and go to war with Saudi Arabia -- and we'd be doing it without any approval from either the Arab League or the UN Security Council.

Do most of our fighter jets carry two pilots?

They clearly are not a case for a Libya-style intervention, but we aren't even making Egypt-style condemnations or Egypt-style pressure. Our criticism of them is incredibly muted in comparison.

The confusion over the mission, meanwhile, has spread beyond Libya. On Monday, NATO members bickered over whether what began as a relatively straightforward effort aimed at preventing Gaddafi from launching airstrikes against his people had turned into a more punitive action directed at his military forces, according to a European diplomat.

The disputes appear to have delayed U.S. efforts to turn the command of the operation over to NATO in the next few days. As of Monday evening, it remained unclear when responsibility would shift and who would assume it.

France, which has sought to portray itself as being in the vanguard of the operation, has raised concerns that Arab states will not participate in the operation if it is led by NATO. Turkey, which abstained from voting on the U.N. resolution, has said it sees no role for NATO.

Senior U.S. officials have made clear that Gaddafi needs to vacate his position even as they have said that driving him from power and degrading his military forces were not the international coalition’s goals.

There is no real comparison between a mildly authoritarian Arab regime beset with some internal religious factions, such as Bahrain, and that of the daffy Ghadaffi.

If you are going to indulge in this silly pseudo contradiction, please acknowledge that by the standard you are applying, we and the "International community" should also be going after Syria, Jordan, Kuwait, the UAE, Dubai, Algeria and Oman.

Now there's an investigation into the rescue of the downed pilot because it's alleged U.S. helicopter rescuers shot Libyans during the rescue mission. The Guardian reports that the U.S. has denied this 100%.

American War Plane Crashes in Libya

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An American F-15E fighter jet crashed in Libya overnight and one crew member has been recovered while the other is “in the process of recovery,” according to a spokesman for the American military’s Africa Command and a British reporter who saw the wreckage.

The crash was likely caused by mechanical failure and not hostile fire, the spokesman, Vince Crawley, told Reuters. Details of the incident remained sparse. The crash was the first known setback for the international coalition attacking Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces in three days of strikes authorized by the United Nations Security Council…

United States military commanders repeated throughout the day that they were not communicating with Libyan rebels, even as a spokesman for the rebel military, Khaled El-Sayeh, asserted that rebel officers had been providing the allies with coordinates for their airstrikes. “We give them the coordinates, and we give them the location that needs to be bombed,” Mr. Sayeh told reporters.

Do most of our fighter jets carry two pilots?

The nightmare already started; Obama has not provided enough information on our involvement, even though he said "days and not weeks." That doesn't mean much when we don't know what the parameters are - which he has never provided.

It just gets more FUBAR by the minute. Now there's an investigation into the rescue of the downed pilot because it's alleged U.S. helicopter rescuers shot Libyans during the rescue mission. The Guardian reports that the U.S. has denied this 100%.

Hopefully he was also asked about journalist accounts that have a large part of the column being attacked while retreating....

In this case, it was the US Marines that went in and rescued the downed pilot.