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2011-02-21 Africa North

Libya air force bombs protesters heading for army base

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Posted by Steve White 2011-02-21 12:54|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 The big question is what does the White House do about it? There are many sides and arguments to this question.

Posted by Penguin 2011-02-21 13:54|| 2011-02-21 13:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Penguin, easy answer. Obama won't do squat.

Re: protests - crushing a popular uprising with force isn't really that hard. Plus, Gaddafi and the Chicoms have the advantage of Hosni recently demonstrating exactly what NOT to do.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2011-02-21 16:20|| 2011-02-21 16:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, what not to do if you want to stay in power/survive.

If you don't care about your citizens or world opinion, Gaddafi is doing exactly the right thing.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2011-02-21 17:38|| 2011-02-21 17:38|| Front Page Top

#4 This stuff is pretty mild by Chinese standards. I'm kind of surprised - I had expected a Hama-scale massacre of tens of thousands, given that Arab regimes are much more repressive than their Chinese counterpart. In 1989, the Chinese government had two group armies (30K - 65K personnel each) tasked with defending the Sino-Russian border transferred to Beijing where they used armored vehicles spraying machine gun fire to squash the demonstrators, of whom NATO estimates 7,000 were killed. This transpired over 3 days.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2011-02-21 20:07|| 2011-02-21 20:07|| Front Page Top

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