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Old 03-20-2011, 03:47 AM
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Originally Posted by k9870 View Post
So apparently were gonna bomb libya. But what then? The rebels already got creamed, and are pretty much just a different group of bad guys, you know calling for sharia law and taking british soldiers hostage and that crap. Oh well maybe a bomb will finally hit quadaffi.
I wouldn't go so far as to paint the rebels the same as Qaddafi (it isn't as if they were intentionally trying to kidnap the Brits who more or less showed up unannounced when the rebellion had just broken out). As for claiming that they are all Islamists, that's pretty much how Qaddafi has been trying to characterize them, with no real evidence that it is a widespread sentiment.

Perhaps what's most interesting so far about this operation is probably how cynically people (on the internet at least) have been responding to it (compared to Iraq or Kosovo)