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Aside from a few SF types, I doubt that we'll see Americans on the ground in Libya. We're too strung out as it is and we don't have a good history there (..."to the shores of Tripoli"...). Logistically and militarily speaking, France would be the logical choice but their colonial history in the region might rub many in the region the wrong way.
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Rather more recently than the Marines going ashore 200 years ago, Wheelus AFB was a substantial base outside Tripoli in operation for thirty years and change, from mid-WW2 until Khadafi took power and ejected us. My understanding is that the US base was not especially unpopular prior to the ejection.
Of course that was in 1969 or 70, and there's been substantial water under the bridge since then, with the current Libyan population mostly not knowing anything but life under Khadafi's regime and propaganda machine.