Five Letters, Three the Same, Both Begin With an S.

[Savonarola]

That would make Libya almost perfectly analogous to the Spanish Civil War (if Orwell is anything to go by.)

Did you not see the coverage of the 'war' the Libyan rebels were staggeringly inept, save perhaps for those besieged in Misurata. NATO essentially one the war for them.

Yes, have you read "Homage to Catalonia?"

[CountDeMoney]

Yes, have you read "Homage to Catalonia?"

Not enough unions.

[Ed Anger]

Too many beaners in Spain.

[Razgovory]

I'm not really sure what happened in Libya could be described as a civil war, both sides were so inept, it's a wonder they ever managed to find each other. 

That would make Libya almost perfectly analogous to the Spanish Civil War (if Orwell is anything to go by.)

Did you not see the coverage of the 'war' the Libyan rebels were staggeringly inept, save perhaps for those besieged in Misurata. NATO essentially one the war for them.

The Spanish army was remarkably inept during the Spanish Civil War.  The only good units were the colonial ones.  The Moors and the Foreign Legion.

[MadImmortalMan]

I can't figure out who are the good guys. So the analogy bears out at least that far.

[CountDeMoney]

I can't figure out who are the good guys. So the analogy bears out at least that far.

Really?  You couldn't figure out who the good guys were in Spain?

[MadImmortalMan]

I can't figure out who are the good guys. So the analogy bears out at least that far.

Really?  You couldn't figure out who the good guys were in Spain?

We'll never know unless Tim writes an alt-hist about what the republicans would have done in power. 

[Tonitrus]

I can't figure out who are the good guys. So the analogy bears out at least that far.

Really?  You couldn't figure out who the good guys were in Spain?

We'll never know unless Tim writes an alt-hist about what the republicans would have done in power. 

Maybe they would have joined the Allies after Barbarossa...subsequently conquored by Germany, Gibralter also falls.  Hitler's armies of darkness march all over the face of the earth.

[CountDeMoney]

Maybe they would have joined the Allies after Barbarossa...subsequently conquored by Germany, Gibralter also falls.  Hitler's armies of darkness march all over the face of the earth.

Nonsense.  They sit out the war, rebuilding their nation through progressive land reform, wealth redistribution and other wholly benevolent and morally righteous works.

[Razgovory]

So Tim, are you less skeptical about the National Review thing?

[jimmy olsen]

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1798&dat=19730117&id=lx8fAAAAIBAJ&sjid=J40EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5234,3618495  The author Jeffery Hart writes a similar article in this news paper and refers to how he brought up the subject in the National Review a little earlier.  I do not have access to National Review archives, but his article on the 5th of January was called "The Great Guernica Fraud', so I imagine it was similar to this news paper article.

National Review was also in favor of segregation, but I'll let you find that one.

He argues that the bombing of Guernica was militarily justified. That's different from what you implied.

[Razgovory]

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1798&dat=19730117&id=lx8fAAAAIBAJ&sjid=J40EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5234,3618495  The author Jeffery Hart writes a similar article in this news paper and refers to how he brought up the subject in the National Review a little earlier.  I do not have access to National Review archives, but his article on the 5th of January was called "The Great Guernica Fraud', so I imagine it was similar to this news paper article.

National Review was also in favor of segregation, but I'll let you find that one.

He argues that the bombing of Guernica was militarily justified. That's different from what you implied.

Try again.  He's saying that Nationalists only bombed the outskirts hitting the rails and road junctions, and the city was actually destroyed by the evil republicans for propaganda.

[Admiral Yi]

Not enough unions.

[Ed Anger]

I can't figure out who are the good guys. So the analogy bears out at least that far.

Really?  You couldn't figure out who the good guys were in Spain?

Franco. 

Speaking of fruits, Seefor got on my case once for me mentioning a wargame called Arriba Espana! He was in one of his leftist phases.

[Archy]

Another point of similarity are the international brigades. just like in the thirties people leave Belgium to fight in Syria, even schoolkids.