TOON: "You and whose air force?"

[pinboy3niner]

Chris Riddell The Observer, Sunday 13 March 2011

[walldude]

1. I can't figure out if it's better to stay out of it

or get involved. I say we just send some CIA Black Op in there to assassinate the motherfucker.

[Rincewind]

3. Let's invade

an Islamic country that has a lot of oil, I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

[walldude]

4. I know.. but it's hard to watch a slaughter...

Like I said sneak the fuck in there and put him out of his misery. It avoids the need for military intervention and it leaves it up to the Libyan's on what they do next.

[obxhead]

5. How is that any different than a terrorist attack on us?

The only possible difference in the end is the mindset. We are right to do so because he is killing. Ok, I get it, I really do. At the same time we were not attacked for our freedoms as has been parroted for a decade. We were attacked for our intervention in the ME for decades.

I'm in no way saying either is correct. I'm only saying one persons righteous act is another persons forced oppression. The only real force that can bring change is the force of the people standing up for themselves.

I honestly feel any military intervention by the US will hurt Libya and the rest of the ME more than it will help in the end.

[pinboy3niner]

6. It's pretty tough for anyone to sneak up on him

Gaddafi's residence is inside a military compound heavily guarded by Armor and Infantry, and he's surrounded by an elite unit of personal bodyguards as well.

If only it were that easy. He's already been disappearing protesters. They get arrested and hauled away, and no one ever sees them again. So, besides the bloodbath his airpower, armor, artillery, and naval gunboats are inflicting on the Libyan people, there's also a quieter bloodbath going on in the background.

As you said, it's hard to watch a slaughter...

[baldguy]

7. The invasion would pay for itself!

It's a win-win.

[SharonAnn]

8. Wouldn't it be a "slam-dunk"? Where's George Tenant when we need him?

[joshcryer]

2. +1

[pinboy3niner]

9. AP Interview: Libyan rebels plead for no-fly zone

AP Interview: Libyan rebels plead for no-fly zone

By RYAN LUCAS
The Associated Press
updated 6 minutes ago 2011-03-12T14:59:33


BAYDA, Libya — A rebel leader pleaded Saturday with the international community to approve a no-fly zone over Libya as Moammar Gadhafi's forces gained strength in the east, securing a key port city and oil refinery.

Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the head of the opposition's interim governing council, also expressed disappointment over the failure to act by the United States and other Western countries, which have expressed solidarity with the rebels in their fight to oust Gadhafi but stopped short of approving any military action.

"If there is no no-fly zone imposed on Gadhafi's regime, and if his ships are not checked then we will have a catastrophe in Libya," Abdul-Jalil told The Associated Press in an interview in a professors' lounge at the Omar Mukhtar University in Bayda, where he is also head of the city council.

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".... All the people around the country want Gadhafi to leave and there is no way we can negotiate another option," he said. "We let the international community face its responsibilities. The people don't want him to rule them any more. They are between two choices, either to be killed or to fight to the end."


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42045993/ns/world_news-africa