Not With A Bang

[poliphilo]

David Cameron proposes a no fly zone over Libya. Getting into his stride he suggests he may even send troops. His allies tell him not to be so silly.

At the same time we learn that soldiers on active duty in Afghanistan are going to be handed their redundancy notices as soon as they get home. 

Britain no longer has the chops to be the bully it used to be. 
 
I'm sorry it comes at the price of humiliation and betrayal, but this is a moment I've been waiting for most of my life.

Comments

[airstrip.livejournal.com]

The issue with foreign support for resistance is that nationalism is strong worldwide. When a foreign power steps in, it implicates the resistance as agents of that power. Reasonably, it should cause people to be wary: the resistance, should it succeed, owes a debt to foreigners whose interests might not be so amenable.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The man who seems to have emerged as the leader of the rebels in Benghazi was asking for an air strike on Gaddafi's HQ today. I must say I was surprised.