[quote=zk][quote=surveyor][quote=zk]Surveyor, I’d be interested to hear any remotely plausible scenarios where this doesn’t stay there.[/quote]
We obviously don’t care about the citizens of any country enough to engage in military operations or extremely expensive projects on their behalf. If we did, the world would be a different place. It’s strictly for our own interests. So, why is it in our interests for gadhafi to lose? What’s our long-term plan? Have we thought this through? What, exactly, are we trying to accomplish?
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These are all good questions we should be asking, since answers to them haven’t been well articulated by our leaders. I think the US may well have been persuaded to help with this one, as part of a quid pro quo to allies, and part a Muslim-world public relations exercise. It is heralded as a humanitarian intervention which is nothing new, but the gamble is making it look so when many will just see it as an extension of it’s meddling in the Middle East.
I think this could go three ways: It becomes long and drawn out, and involves ground forces, or the rebels prevail, but are not so friendly, or it is a success and creates an atmosphere of reform in the region.
