What is to be gained from this bombing?

[anotheoldgit]

http://tinyurl.com/6ggcad3

The Arab League are up in arms over it, so without their support can we take this action any further?

The bombing has got to stop eventually, what then if Colonel Gaddafi is still firmly in power, will ground troops then have to be sent in, what is the end game?

/// President Barack Obama believes that the UN resolution does not authorise the use of ground troops; yet George Osborne and William Hague yesterday declined to rule it out.///

So it looks as if we are in a no turning back mode once again, but this time Britain in the fore-front, and who will join us?

[andy-hughes]

A senior military advisor from the original Iraq conflict opined that there is no point at all going in with a planned Entry Strategy, unless you have an equally well-developed Exit Strategy, and ideally, a specific intention in mind to be achieved.

Again we do not appear to have the latter two - the government really do learn nothing from history - and that is a serious dangerous concept.

[merciasounds]

What have we gained? Just another shed-load of people to hate us, that's all.

[Sqad]

Hopefully we have avoided the genocide which clearly would have ensued in major towns and cities of Eastern Libya and we did this with the help of many countries with the support of the resolution of the U.N security council.

[Gromit]

Surprised you are using the Eurofighter on your avatar.

[modeller]

//Surprised you are using the Eurofighter on your avatar//

What do you suggest Gromit a picture of Gadaffi maybe with or without his wig .

[Balanceofpower]

Have we all got such short memories?
This is the same pattern of war by stealth/creep and by propaganda exactly the same as Iraq and Afghanistan, whether you agree or not look at the comparisons.

2001 Who would have sanctioned an invasion in Afghanistan if there was not a good reason? Twin Towers and Osama Bin Laden and Afghanistan harboured terrorists, we have to send in air strikes and bombers to carpet bomb the mountain hideaways and be out within weeks. Permission granted, mission creep we have to stay here now we are in as "you can`t trust them Al qieda".
No real gains no proof Bin Laden being there but an instable country left.

2002 The so-called terrorists are now being aided by Iraq, UN can`t give permission to invade without good reason? So Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction and he WILL use them, we will all die within 15 minutes. force him to let in inspectors to prove the UN wrong Saddam allowed in the inspectors and that wasn`t good enough. Permission granted to invade, mission creep as if we leave now Saddam will kill all his people and burn the oil fields "can`t trust him". No weapons found no real gains there but an instable country left.

2011 The UK/USA want Gadaffi out, no real reason. But he is killing his own people slaughtering them by the millions! Oh ok we`ll just have a no fly zone and nothing else. Mission creep, Libyans want to have a ceasefire, pull the jets out as the resolution only states we are there to stop his air action. No "can`t trust him" we have to disable him.
Oh and the rebels are starving and can`t carry on their mission if we leave now Gadaffi will finish them off and burn the oil fields so we will have to send in the ground troops only for humanitarian and environmental reasons, though we will have to make sure ALL of Gadaffi`s troops are put out of action.
No real gains, no proof of genocide by the Libyan government but