Who could have seen that coming?
http://www.longislandpress.com/2011/05/15/libyan-combat-stymies-moves-on-antiaircraft-threat/
Random angry young men running around with a device that can easily shoot down a civilian airliner. Surprise, Surprise, Surprise. Now that was unexpected.
This tells me we need better chess players in the U.S. State Department. They’re only looking one move deep. Continuing a previous thread:
Q-KR8 check…
R-KB1, discovered check!
Britain is sending in Apache helicopters.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/23/apache-helicopters-libya-britain
Should make for an interesting showdown with those 20,000 anti-aircraft weapons.
Another day, another escalation.
You beat me by an hour 😉
I wonder how far they can push this before the anti-colonial resentment makes NATO the target instead of Gaddafi – the fact that everyone is ignoring Syria can’t be going unnoticed.
Qaddaffi being a secular government (he was a stooge of the Soviet Uniom after all, which was officially atheist) is probably an important factor for Saudi Arabia. Beyond the oil and gas, I think the US and England are motivated by wanting to rebuild air force bases in the area.