Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee View Post
Didn’t Obama say the mission was to protect innocent civilians in Libya?
Then why are the coalition bombing the shit outa the place after Gaddiffi offered a ceasefire?
Probably because he did not cease fire. He has "called" for all kinds of things---always has, but what Gadaffi says and what Gadaffi does are two totally different things....much like his compatriots across the whole region. Talking about the West not being "trustworthy" is pretty pointless under the circumstances.

Remember "The Godfather"....where we had the "good mafia" and the "bad mafia" families.....it's a bit like that. You need to listen to the "good mafia" for a bit.....those are the guys celebrating with Libyan flags on top of the burnt out tanks----which the French attacked when they were being operated by the "bad mafia"........it is getting clearer yet??

The choices for the west are not great, but I think we would just prefer it if the lesser of the evils won, and if we don't help out, the greater of the evils would likely win. FFS even some terrible rogue states like Denmark, Norway and Canada are providing military assets to take out Daffi....and the French of all people....they almost always vote against anything if shooting is involved.

Well done Sarko....finally an EU leader has taken the lead on something and put some money where his mouth is.... knowing of course that the US will be blamed anyway if things go badly...even if they are not taking the "lead" officially, but are in fact taking the lead....because they are very good at this sort of thing you know, and they have all that really shit hot military stuff sitting around. Nobody else has such shit hot gear and there is quite a bit of envy amongst the "allies"...but they drool when they see it in action...