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| Battered Libya sues for peace |
| 2011-05-26 |
| The Libyan regime is preparing to make a fresh overture to the international community, offering concessions designed to end the bloodshed of the three-month-long civil war. The Independent has obtained a copy of a letter from the country's Prime Minister, Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, being sent to a number of foreign governments. It proposes an immediate ceasefire to be monitored by the United Nations and the African Union, unconditional talks with the opposition, amnesty for both sides in the conflict, and the drafting of a new constitution. David Cameron and Barack Obama met yesterday to try to find an exit strategy from a conflict increasingly appearing to have no definitive military solution in sight. The US President acknowledged that the allies now seem to face a long, attritional campaign. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 Argh. Look, you don't fight an attritional campaign in which your side doesn't, y'know, attrit. Do they bother to teach basic strategic concepts to journalists or diplomats anymore? I'd describe the current campaign as a basic raiding campaign. You operate from an inaccessible base, chase the enemy into his strongholds, and burn his shit down. Rinse, repeat, until he agrees to give in or his people knife him & replace him with someone who'll give you what you want. This is, in point of fact, the preferred Arab strategy, historically speaking. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2011-05-26 08:54 |