The Mission Creep guy said early on “there is nothing important in Libya south of the Coast highway – only a few old cold war era Russian bases”.
That was true in 1986 when he tried the first time to kill Qadaffi. Apparently, he hasn’t been reading up on the Man Made River that Qadaffi built to transfer water to Ajdabiya and Benghazi. over the last decade While NATO has been busy bombing Misrata, the Libyan government troops have been taking control of the oil fields and the water pipeline in the South.
Back on the old blog, I had posted pictures of Jalo – the “end of the road”…. a really bleak place that will be very hard for the rebels to attack, and even harder for NATO to bomb.
I think NATO is going to discover a lot of the things they have been trying to destroy are hidden out in the middle of the desert. A country of 600,000 square miles is a very big place in which to hide things. The Man Made River is 14 feet in diameter – big enough to drive an Army through.