military action against Libya

It would have been over in days a few weeks ago if we had stayed out if it....

At the cost of the rebels dead .

THese are guys from the same tribes who have supplied far and away the most terrorists against the West on a per capita basis of any peoples of the Middle East

Thats a bold claim....what about the Palestinians and the Saudis ?

I did not do the research, but the claim is that the Tribes around Benghazi blow the Saudis away in supplying the terrorist training camps.

now they only attack Israel, as is their right considering what the Israelis do to them.

2007 West Point Study Shows Benghazi-Darnah-Tobruk Area was a World Leader in Al Qaeda Suicide Bomber Recruitment
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Darnah, northeast Libya: World Capital of Jihadis

The most striking finding which emerges from the West Point study is that the corridor which goes from Benghazi to Tobruk, passing through the city of Darnah (also transliterated as Derna) them represents one of the greatest concentrations of jihadi terrorists to be found anywhere in the world, and by some measures can be regarded as the leading source of suicide bombers anywhere on the planet. Darnah, with one terrorist fighter sent into Iraq to kill Americans for every 1,000 to 1,500 persons of population, emerges as suicide bomber heaven, easily surpassing the closest competitor, which was Riyad, Saudi Arabia.

Charlie Rose had a French philosopher, Bernard-Henri Levy, on his show the other night who was urging ground troops in Libya (American troops). There was another man from the Daily Beast (can't remember his name) who thought that was a terrible idea, but the French guy said with trained ground troops the civil war in Libya would be over in a 'matter of days'. He also said he's recently been in Libya, met the opposition leaders, and they're all ok guys.

Since the US has no business being there in the first place, using ground troops in any capacity, even as advisors, would be a huge mistake.

The only thing that would accomplish is to make more people angry at us and cause more problems for the US.

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At the cost of the rebels dead .

THese are guys from the same tribes who have supplied far and away the most terrorists against the West on a per capita basis of any peoples of the Middle East....remind me again why I care...

a civil war that we have no interest in

We have no interest in saving human lives

I am no more in favor of ....... the UN using victim theory to decide disputes with-in nations.

I dont think that the next superpower China has been right very often so far about global affairs, but they are damn right about this.

WASHINGTON – Amid complaints from allies that the U.S. military should be doing more in the Libya operation, Pentagon officials disclosed Wednesday that American fighter jets have continued airstrikes inside the country even after the United States turned the mission over to NATO last week.
The revelation came as Pentagon officials laid out U.S. participation in the Libya conflict over the past 10 days, including that Americans have flown 35 percent of all air missions.
Those missions, they said, include bombing attacks against Libyan surface-to-air missile launchers, as well as surveillance and refueling operations. It was the first time the Pentagon acknowledged that airstrikes continued after the U.S. handed over control of the Libya mission to NATO on April 4.
According to Pentagon officials, eleven U.S. fighter jets were assigned to NATO to look for and take out the air defense systems.

"When this transition takes place, it is not going to be our planes that are maintaining the no-fly zone," the president said at a news conference in El Salvador as he neared the end of a Latin American trip overshadowed by events in Libya. "It is not going to be our ships that are necessarily enforcing the arms embargo. That's precisely what the other nations are going to do."