NATO isn’t doing so good in Libya so far. Three Danes and eight British soldiers have been captured by both sides in the Libyan civil war. Is NATO planning on attacking both sides now, and turning this into a three-way dance?
This is a no-win situation for the West.
By all means, NATO aircraft should airdrop food and medicines into rebel-controlled areas, but the West should not be involved in combat operations. And they shouldn’t be sending soldiers in…both sides are saying they don’t want a Western military presence in Libya.
Why doesn’t NATO listen? STAY OUT of Libya!
NATO should be flying supplies and transports into Tunisia to relieve the humanitarian nightmare taking place there, instead of trying to push Qaddaffi out. I think he’ll be betrayed by one of his own men in the end, and forcibly removed from the picture in a hail of gunfire.
That can’t happen soon enough. However, this is a Libyan and an Arab problem until then, not an American or NATO one. If they want us in there, they’ll ask for it.
But if the reception that both sides have given NATO soldiers so far is any indication, they won’t. And now NATO has a really complicated hostage situation to deal with too.
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No danish soldiers have been captured in Libya.
At the beginning of the conflict, there were. This is an older commentary now.
http://www.helium.com/items/2109182-uk-in-talks-to-free-8-special-forces-troops-held-by-opposition-in-eastern-libya
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