Buoyed by strikes, Libya rebels try to advance

[Akoto]

Source: Associated Press

ZWITINA, Libya (AP) -- Energized by international strikes on Moammar Gadhafi's forces, rebels advanced in an attempt to reclaim an eastern city under siege by the Libyan leader's troops on Monday as the U.S. commander of the allied campaign warned that a stalemate could emerge from the bombardment.

That could mean a longer conflict and an unclear end game as the U.S. and European countries try to calibrate how much their now three-day old air campaign - officially intended to protect civilians - should go toward actively helping the rebel cause. Henri Guaino, a top adviser to the French president, said the allied effort would last "a while yet."

Ali Zeidan, an envoy to Europe from the opposition-created governing council, told The Associated Press that rebels want to drive Gadhafi from power and see him tried - not have him killed. He said that while airstrikes have helped, the opposition needs more weapons to win the fight.

"We are able to deal with Gadhafi's forces by ourselves" as long as it's a fair fight, he said in Paris. "You see, Gadhafi himself, we are able to target him, and we would like to have him alive to face the international or the Libyan court for his crime .... We don't like to kill anybody ... even Gadhafi himself."

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[Davis_X_Machina]

1. Just wait till someone tells them...

...they're a US-led client army and a tool of the oil companies.

Boy, will they be pissed. They'll go right over to Qadaffi.

[DetlefK]

2. You suffer from Big-Money-derangement syndrome.

OF COURSE!
It's all the CIA's fault.
And the oil companies.
And the big banks.
And the Koch brothers.
And the republican party.
And Obama, while we're at it.


Decades of poverty, oppression and torture have NOTHING to do with it.

[Davis_X_Machina]

3. I would debate this...

...but I have to go make some puppets with giant papier-mâche heads. They need time to dry before the march.

[SolutionisSolidarity]

4. If they don't already know that, they are stupid.

That's the price for accepting military aid from the "developed" world. When the rebellion is finished, a handful of it's most ruthless members will be elevated to the new government. These men will live like kings being the enforcers for the West, and no one will ever give a damn about the will of the Libyan people again. The gas station is open for business, boys.

[Amonester]

5. The *stealth* (although, not completely) Gaddafi's of the Global Economy(TM)

namely, the Supply-Side(TM) Obscenely Rich Ruling Cla$$ will Raise Their Glasses at their Limited-Access Toxedo & Catwalk-Dress Cocktails(TM) to celebrate another "W-inning" in their ongoing war on the 99% "lesser people" of the rest of the world.

Count On It. And Welcome To The 21st Century, Namely, The Oil & Water Global War(TM).

The More Things Change, The More They Remain The $ame.