#7 The sad truth is that most, over 95% of the Libyans just want to be left alone to make a living, raise the kids, and go to the Mosque on Friday. The militias, the bickering politicians, and the looneys of the jihad persuasion are in a huge minority.
Apparently our "foreign policy experts" think that the "Arab Spring" in Syria and Egypt worked so well that they will let things run their course. Much like Iraq where most of the people were pro American, the politics got in the way of common sense and now, like Iraq, we will watch the slaughter of the innocents as the various factions wage war by killing the uninvolved and the bystanders instead of each other.
I get email and Facebook messages everyday from Libya and the news is both grim and hopeful. The normal people are brave enough to demonstrate against the militias. The militias by and large refrain from killing other Libyans but the Syrians, Egyptians, Algerians, Moroccans, French, Spanish, and Swedish jihadists have no such compunction to restrain. At least the Libyan militias shoot at each other and the army and rarely on the crowds. The Libyan militias are probably further up the evolutionary chain than the jihadists.
If the jihadists get a foothold in Libya, they will kill thousands as they fight each other. |