NATO’s Libya campaign drags on

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Source: The Washington Post

NAPLES — As NATO bombs began to rain on Libya in March, President Obama and other Western leaders assured their war-weary publics that the campaign to protect civilians from Moammar Gaddafi’s crackdown would be over within weeks.

Now the coalition’s springtime incursion has stretched to summer and Gaddafi’s resilience has startled the leaders who committed to the operation. Calls are growing to end it even as NATO pleads for more time.

As the campaign enters its fourth month, NATO officials insist that it is succeeding and that Gaddafi will become the Arab Spring’s third casualty. But that will happen, they say, only in a slow and steady advance on the capital as his troops run out of supplies, not in a flash of pyrotechnics that puts him out of power in an instant.

“The noose is tightening around him, and there’s very few places for him to go,” Gen. Charles Bouchard, the Canadian head of the operations, said Saturday in an interview at his Naples headquarters. But, he added, “you don’t stay in power for 41 years and expect that he’s going to leave at the first sign of stresses.”

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[RandomThoughts]

1. Function not data.

And not about Lybia, and that might be true in that context, and makes sense in some contexts.

But that is the workman's view of stuff.

In function not data, and in concepts of justice and compassion.

The supplies are unlimited.


Spice Girls - Say you will be there.
http://www.mtv.com/videos/spice-girls/10087/say-youll-be-there.jhtml#artist=461

Sorta like solar power.
:)


Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5JkHBC5lDs

Bonnie Raitt - I Can't Make You Love Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9Cu6GYqxo

Bonnie Raitt - Nick Of Time
http://www.123video.nl/playvideos.asp?MovieID=407128

Dire Straits - Walk of Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZxVC0GB838


Constantine - Bring me to life (Evanescence)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx8d3K_hngw




Side note, I don't make deals, so no need to promise, once you figure that out, it makes much more sense. Besides no deals are valid by the concept of informed consent, and informed consent can not occur in the spiritual by its definition of being beyond the ability to completely understand. Therefore all deals are invalid, everyone is free, and people can choose, and still have everything, if by free will choice of someone that wants to give, not by deals.

And I am still standing.

However that small error does not change the equation, and is more of a bias, I understand the intent of the video
:)

:loveya:

[Wilms]

2. That's how war profiting is maximized. n/t

[Ice Number Nine]

3. Since when is a few months "dragging on"?

Sounds like whoever wrote this is an idiot.

[frylock]

4. r2z