US General...no obligation to protect armored and armed Libyan rebels.

[dkf]

Only obligation is to protect the unarmed.

On CNN.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. That's the end of this little adventure.

[dkf]

2. Or maybe we have to arm them before we can leave.

Is that the price of an exit?

[Rex]

3. Evidently they want to call the war off.

We are running out of freedom bombs.

[dkf]

4. Well they said Gates wasn't very interested in doing this...

It's Rice, Powers and Hillary that pushed for it. The military might actually realize they are over stretched.

[Baclava]

5. Unpossible! Hillary demanded Moe's head on a stick and by gawd she's gonna get it!

hrrruumph

[Prometheus Bound]

6. True enough. He argued against it.

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. This is true, he was interviewed about this a few weeks ago

and described how painful it would be, having to blow shit up in advance of the NFZ. It was clear he didn't want to do it.

[David__77]

8. Well of course. The point is to protect civilians.

Right?

[provis99]

9. which just goes to show

how ill thought out this whole bombing situation is; if the Generals aren't too sure who they are supposed to bomb, it's the fault of the idiot politicians who gave them a vague mandate.

[DFab420]

10. He seems pretty sure who they are supposed to bomb

He also seemed pretty clear who they were there for and who they weren't

[NuclearDem]

11. Actually, it's the generals knowing following their orders

Protect Libyan civilians, NOT take sides.