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Analysts: More Libyan bloodshed could prompt U.S., NATO intervention
If the U.S. military were to intervene in an increasingly chaotic Libya, it would most likely be part of a NATO action in which Libyan bloodshed has reached a humanitarian crisis, analysts said Thursday.Gee, that shouldn't take long at all. As reports emerged Thursday about deadly clashes between leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces and anti-government protesters in the town of Zawiya near Tunisia, analysts highlighted how Gadhafi has already pledged to fight a rebellion to martyrdom. Military intervention "is something which I hope doesn't happen, but it looks as though at some point that it should happen," said Simon Henderson, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "What's an acceptable number of civilian deaths? I don't know. Choose your figure," Henderson said. "At the very least, instead of having a casualty list certainly in the hundreds, possibly in the thousands, we don't want a casualty list numbering in the tens of thousands, or 100,000 or so." The numbers guarantee that Gadaffy will get away with it. Now if I were in charge: We would threaten Gadaffy's existence if he touched one hair on any foreigner's head. Some rented thug would touch a hair on a foreigner's head somewhere. We would overfly the country about a zillion times and plink every tank and heavy machine-gun site we could find, including any resources related to the elite guards or Gadaffy himself. We could use twitter to get folks to turn in places where they were getting shot at and go bomb anything that looks bad there, too. Posted by: gorb 2011-02-25 |
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