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Originally Posted by Raellus
For the U.S., it's damned if you do, damned if you don't. If we don't support Libya, we lose popular support in the region (public opinion in Tunisia & Egypt seems to favor the NFZ and the Arab Legue voted unanimously to support an NFZ [w/ two contries abstaining]). If we do though, we look like warmongering hypocrits to the rest of the world. I'm sure that Bin Laden is going to have a field day with this.
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The simple fact is that we have to go full on and take Kaddaffi out of power now. We need to attack his troops, and basically become the rebel's air force. If the rebels lose the war, then our actions will make us look impotent and, well, stupid.