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2011-04-21 Africa North

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Posted by Fred 2011-04-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 WORLD NEWS > [Libyan]REBELS WILL ACCEPT FOREIGN FORCES [ground forces = grunts] TO PROTECT LIBYANS, espec as for Humanitarian purposes which is defined as including armed protection from pro-Gaddafi forces.

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* TOPIX/FREEREPUBLIC > INTELLIGENCE EXPERTS SEE GADDAFI REBUILDING POWER.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-04-21 03:24|| 2011-04-21 03:24|| Front Page Top

#2 The more things change.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-04-21 03:56|| 2011-04-21 03:56|| Front Page Top

#3 lol, gromgoru

The French and the British trying to screw each other over in Libya.

Posted by phil_b 2011-04-21 05:55|| 2011-04-21 05:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Tom Clancy once remarked, talking to some journalists, that they have it easy. They only have to write down what happens. Novelists have to make sense. As an example, suppose somebody had tried, in 1910, to start a Clancy-like novel about WW I, including explaining why it started. Nobody would take it seriously. In fact, after it started, the reasons are so murky that it's hard to believe.
Fortunately, the yurps don't have enough combat power to kill so many of each other again, unless they go nuke, in a moment of confusion.
On the other hand, they may not have enough combat power to deal with simultaneous jihad at home and protect their Med flank(s).
What a mess.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2011-04-21 08:43|| 2011-04-21 08:43|| Front Page Top

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