Reply #17: There's no substance to that opinion. What a load of bunk. [View All]

[Waiting For Everyman]

Seems that commentator can only imagine change in one direction. Before, the insurgents had the upper hand. Now Gaddafi does. So it's suddenly impossible to change again, just as easily? Uh... why? Obviously, "confidence" there in Libya is fluid, it isn't set in stone. Seems to me, with obvious unlimited military power now backing the insurgents - the flightly public opinion there is going to once again swing back to the insurgents before too long. All it takes is retaking some towns that they already took before WITHOUT any help. Now they HAVE help. And just how is Gaddafi going to stop them this time, when he can't squash them from the air?

For once, I agree with John McCain who said this morning he is "confident" the insurgents will win, and so am I. I don't think that is farfetched at all.

These opinion-minions like this writer always amaze me. Their big skill in life is making a lot of hot air sound credible. But no matter how smooth it sounds, it is still hot air - nothing there. What I wonder is, why are so many people working so hard to drum up support for Gaddafi?

It's real simple, Marshell: the rebels took that string of towns before, there's no reason to think they can't do it again, and when they do public opinion will shift again to their side of the checkerboard. And it isn't your problem to worry about anyway. "We", the West, don't have to wring our hands and clutch our pearls over how to get Gaddafi out or "win" the insurgency. The Libyans will figure out that part of it. It'll happen, or it won't. It's their problem, and their future, and their lives on the line. Not yours. Meanwhile, there's no need to call this a "mess". That is insulting to the brave people of Libya who are paying for a new future with their blood. They aren't demanding any guarantee that it will be a better future. They're just taking that chance. All we're doing, is keeping it a little bit fair from the sidelines. (I know he doesn't read this forum, but I don't care, this guy annoys me.)

Jeez.

I'm not familiar with who this commentator is, but with ideas like that, I'm not interested in finding out. It would be a waste of time.