Juan Cole: The Tanks that did not Defeat Misrata (Photo)

[pampango]

Photograph by Juan Cole, May 2012

Line of tanks that Mu’tasim Qaddafi deployed against the civilians of the city of Misrata, Libya, March-August 2011– destroyed and kept as a memorial outside the city.

http://www.juancole.com/2012/07/the-tanks-that-did-not-defeat-misrata-photo.html

[bemildred]

1. Tanks are obsolete, have been since WWII.

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
-- Barbara Tuchman

[zellie]

2. Juan Cole really seems to have his finger

on what goes on there.