posted on Mar, 24 2011 @ 12:52 PM
reply to post by Vandettas
i hope that no one would bash you for asking really good questions. Obama sprung this whole situation on us after it was all planned out and agreed
upon, it's no surprise that you are confused. The long and short of it is this; uprisings and revolutions are happening all over the mideast, a
particularly stubborn leader (dictator) called Moamar Kaddafi (or however you spell it), thinks that he should stay in power, and that his own
protestors are rebels and terrorists. The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution to enforce a No-Fly Zone over Libya, allowing the rebel forces to
even the odds against the military and air force. A coalition of Western powers, with the surprise backing of the Arab League nations, began to take
out Libya's ground to air defenses, radar installations and any aircraft refusing to land.
Bad Guy = Gaddafi
Good Guys = U.N.Coalition forces
Stuck in the middle = Libyan rebel forces
the problem on the ground is that we really don't know who we're helping. Some have even suggested that Al-Qaeda is involved in helping the rebels.
So even if we succeed, Kaddafi's gone, minimal casualties, the rebels win, we have no idea what type of government will emerge from the chaos.
Meanwhile Ivory Coast, Sudan, Kenya, Egypt, Syria and many other mideast nations face the same revolts and uprisings with no intervention from U.N. or
U.S.
Oh, and Libya has a ton of oil. It's their chief export.