You betcha! Headline from Reuters:
U.S. to deploy more ships to support Libya planning (emphasis added)
Planning? Planning!?!?! For goodness sake, Libya’s military is, at best, fourth rate. We’re not talking about taking on an air force with any ability to sustain active hostilities. Sure, they can bomb open towns unopposed…but it seems that Libya’s pilots and ground crews are foreign mercenaries who won’t want to tangle with a real air force; additionally, it appears that most of Libya’s most modern planes (and they aren’t all that modern) are not in flying condition. We’re not talking about taking on the Luftwaffe or something comparable to a mission against Hanoi in 1970…we’re talking about policing the skies above Libya to give the rebels a breather and allow Gaddafi’s loyalists to draw the proper conclusions about his long-term survivability. This should be able to be done right now – not a few days from now.
And a few days from now it will be – if you look in to the article we’re talking about deploying the USS Bataan on March 23rd…five days from now. This is just playing around…meanwhile, latest reports are that Gaddafi’s forces are continuing offensive operations…
Weak. Pathetic.
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