Ever fancied being a high flying diplomat?
How about having your children’s education at one of the best colleges in the world paid for, a Caribbean holiday perhaps, a Maserati or one of these Rolex watches that Tiger Woods promotes?
Now’s your chance!
We are voting on:
a no fly zone over some tinpot dictators country but wait, theirs more we can also decide if we should allow “all necessary measures… while excluding an occupation force”, to be taken to protect civilians.
There’s a whole load of waffle first and a load more at the end but the above paragraph is the important bit! You can read the other stuff here.
Vote now, too late I’ve closed it 🙂
So, what do we think?
Boadicea's Chariot 
I can be a fat-cat bureaucrat. I abstain 😀
In actuality, in this case I can see a National interest in putting the boys in to kick Gaddafi’s, erm, bottom. Only because the boy Dave has made a right royal screw-up. By mouthing off early against Gaddafi, he has set himself right up for reprisals when Gaddifi slaughters the rebels. Best to send whatever force we can scrape from the bottom of the barrel and help the opposition to get the, erm, nasty man out – preferably feet first.
While I have much sympathy for the ‘rebels’ in Libya – I’m afraid that my attitude is to let them get on with it.
I watched a group of ‘rebels’ demanding that the West go into to help them… Why? They are in a mess of their own making – how many years have they put up with Gaddafi?
Just at this moment the West needs all the money it has to take care of its own people – otherwise there will be riots on the streets of Europe… better in Libya than in London.
Yup,
I’m with Boa. Let them sort it out themselves.
Then when Gadaffi duck is looking the other way, stick a daisy cutter* down his chimney for his part in the Lockerbie disaster.
* If you could strap that idiot Cambuffoon to it before lobbing it off the aircraft, so much the better.
But why do you guys think that the enforcers have to ‘western’?
The Saudis have those nice new jets from Uncle Sam, let them go in and Egypt’s military escaped completely intact after the Egyptian uprising, they could surely move into Tobruk and Benghazi!
I agree let the Arabs sort it out but even they say they need a U.N. resolution.
We spent enough time there from Apr – Nov 1941.
Let the Arabs sort their own mess out. They don’t want us or like us nor will they thank us.
We must stay away form this we aint got the money or the planes.
Fine, Soutie.
Let the UN vote whatever resolution it likes providing it is clear that it is up to the Arabs to sort the mess out… Good Luck to them, and about time they sorted their ‘brethren’ out.
I have a feeling that they would be a lot less ‘gentle’ than a Western force, and far less concerned about how the world thinks about their methods…
OK, the Arab League has got its UN resolution so they can all go and get stuck into Gaddafi. I certainly don’t think Britain should be involved. It would only mean more Pakistani terrorism in our country for “attacking Muslims”.
Boadicea: I am in full agreement with you.
Boa – you said it all in comment #3. When will we learn?
I just checked the Poll, so far its an even split
Well then, that was fun 🙂
We voted 50/50 with 2 abstentions, looks like the UN have ignored our valued input and approved it.
I was rather pleased to see the South African delegate with his hand up in the air voting ‘for’ (perhaps he misunderstood the question, it was in Chinese after all, and thought that they had asked who wanted cheeseburgers for lunch)
Howzit Donald, a good time to close it 😎
I wonder if The Yanks are going to be enterprising and make the first move?
I would say that the Yanks and the British will enforce the no-fly, yes. Best they hurry though 😦
Your poll seems to reflect public opinion. Very uncertain.
31 minutes ago – France has said that it is joining the no-fly, further more they say military strikes are due within hours
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/18/3168059.htm
The unrest in Libya is a civil war, why should we get involved, If the west shows up in force the country will pull together and we will be embroiled in yet another conflict that we cannot win.
Algerian Civil War, 1991–2002
Guatemalan Civil War, 1960–1996
Lebanese Civil War, 1975–1990
Liberian Civil War, 1990–1997
Nepali Civil War, 1994–2006
Rwandan Civil War, 1990–1994
Somali civil war, 1991–present
Angolan Civil War, 1975-2002
Civil war in Chad, 2005-present
Nepalese Civil War, 1996–2006
Republic of the Congo Civil War, 1997-1999
Second Sudanese Civil War, 1983-2005
Sierra Leone Civil War, 1991–2002
Sri Lankan Civil War, 1983–2009
Ugandan Civil War, 1987–present
OMG – perfect point well made…when will we ever learn. Any non-Libyan life lost is a waste and a crime (please all lawyers let me just say it in layman’s terms as an opinion!)