Well some interesting stats are that 2.5 million roughly 45% of the population there are illegals. Also the largest number of Iraqi insurgents the US had to fight came from Libya and were not Libya Militia or Libyan Armed Regulars.
The question is then who were they? It's clear that they have a tie to Bin Laden though but are we helping the greater of two evils?
That's the question floating around that no one want's to ask right now. It brings a very similar issue that Thomas Jefferson faced when arguing about American's being kept as slaves by Tripoli when Americans kept slaves themselves.
Based on the NY Times today the Militia believe they are fighting al Qaeda and are loyal to Kaddafi while the Regular army have their hands full keeping the Militia in-line and taking care of the rebels at this point maybe insurgents with the UN's no-fly zone damaging their advantage.
Let's not forget that they bombed unarmed civilians, but if this is an organized radical insurgence maybe the west should stop and take notes.
Muslims I've talked to from Yemen to Egypt seem to be either confused about what is happening in Libya but see Kaddafi as a bad guy or want to out Kaddafi to restore Islamic authority in Libya -- a way of speaking I've heard too often in western countries.
The Israel stance is that of non-involvement and that the US may be messing with the wasp nest.
As far as I can tell though the resolution may be a divided Libya for the UN but for Libya's sake it may be Kaddafi’s continued rein... I know this is the guy who took down the PanAm flight and was responsible for the bombing of a night club three years before that killing three.
- I'm still finding new perspectives and references but that's where I'm at so far.
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