Libyan Civil War Megathread

[Sheilbh]

So how come Bahrain's autocratic despot gets away with it and poor Gadaffi doesn't?

Being chummy with Ahmadatthumurrikans in Iran got Gadaffi bumped to the front of the line?

Gaddafi has no friends.  The Saudis hate him, the Iranians hate him, the Lebanese hate him (Hezbollah particularly).  When discussing the possibility that he might flee the only countries people thought may accept him were Venezuela, Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso.

[CountDeMoney]

So how come Bahrain's autocratic despot gets away with it and poor Gadaffi doesn't?

When Gaddafi gives Johns Hopkins enough money to build a critical care tower, then we'll leave him alone, too.

[CountDeMoney]

And yet when I post holocaust pictures I get banned. 

US Navy > Wiking SS

Dumbass.

Nigger plz. Seagoing tubs full of circlejerking faggots ain't got nothing on the Wiking PzGrenadiers. 

I'm going to murder your grandparents in their hex the next time I play World In Flames.

[Ed Anger]

Those poor white on black counters. 

[Slargos]

And yet when I post holocaust pictures I get banned. 

US Navy > Wiking SS

Dumbass.

Nigger plz. Seagoing tubs full of circlejerking faggots ain't got nothing on the Wiking PzGrenadiers. 

I'm going to murder your grandparents in their hex the next time I play World In Flames.

Nigger plz. You couldn't murder a bag of newly aborted fetuses.

[Legbiter]

Gadaffi just moved the foreign press corps to his palace.

[Martinus]

So how come Bahrain's autocratic despot gets away with it and poor Gadaffi doesn't?

Being chummy with Ahmadatthumurrikans in Iran got Gadaffi bumped to the front of the line?

Gaddafi has no friends.  The Saudis hate him, the Iranians hate him, the Lebanese hate him (Hezbollah particularly).  When discussing the possibility that he might flee the only countries people thought may accept him were Venezuela, Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso.

And Belarus.

The Axis of Fail.

[Razgovory]

Gadaffi just moved the foreign press corps to his palace.

He's creative, I'll give him that.

[Caliga]

Gadaffi just moved the foreign press corps to his palace.

Ok, I'm back to rooting for Gadhafi.

[garbon]

Boy was I wrong.  I thought there would be a long series of cat and mouse diplomatic moves before we started blowing shit up.

It really is amazing how things heated up.

[dps]

And yet when I post holocaust pictures I get banned. 

US Navy > Wiking SS

Dumbass.

Nigger plz. Seagoing tubs full of circlejerking faggots ain't got nothing on the Wiking PzGrenadiers. 

CDM was talking about the US Navy, not the RN.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

wonder if the rebels mount a real counter offensive and push the pro- daffy troops back on their own, not just 200 wannabe fighters in pick-up trucks racing up and down the main coastal road, while posing for the cameras...

why is he ordering two beers? Shouldn't he be fighting?

[HisMajestyBOB]

To me it all smacks of 'Do Something' rather than a coherent strategy.

Yep.  And what worries me most is that neither Obama or Cameron seem aware that what we've embarked on is regime change.  I think motivated by an entirely understandable and quite right desire to stop brutality against civilians we're engaging in military action when the end goal isn't actually clear. 

Obama has been telling Gaddafi to step down for a while now. Nor did he seem as eager to get involved militarily - it was really French, British and the Arab League pushing for the no-fly zone and intervention.

[Kleves]

So now we're bombing them... to enforce a no-fly zone? Seems that we're more or less committed to removing Q/K/Gadhafi by default now.

[derspiess]

I do hope we are keeping track of our expenses (receipts, mileage, etc.) so we can bill the next Libyan gov't.  Looks like we launched 110 Tomahawk missiles.  At $569,000 a pop, that comes out to $62,590,000 they owe us just for that salvo alone.