Libya

[Hoosier]

Shit is getting real. Two Libyan Mirage fighters landed in Malta, asking for asylum after being asked to fire on protesters.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...l/7439184.html

Their U.N. and other ambassadors are calling for Gadafi to step down

Unconfirmed: Group of soldiers who refused to fire on protesters were burned to death in their barracks. (Warning: this is disturbing video http://www.libyafeb17.com/?p=1402)

Unconfirmed: Reports of gunships and snipers opening up into crowds of protesters.

Bahrain is also getting antsy, home to the US Navy Fifth Fleet.

H.

[Zundfolge]

With Lybia I just can't imagine that even the Muslim Brotherhood would be worse than Gadafi. I seriously doubt a Jeffersonian Democratic Republic will sprout up there and whomever replaces Gadafi will probably be just as bad for the people (and us) but it'll be nice to see him fall ... maybe the Lockerbie Bomber will get his too.

[Elhuero]

when I first saw the headline that said protests had started in libya, my first thought was "those folks are dead meat"

if those people really want to be rid of their dictator, they need to take a page from reagan's playbook.

he knew how to deal with gaddafi

[Zundfolge]

if those people really want to be rid of their dictator, they need to take a page from reagan's playbook.

he knew how to deal with gaddafi

Yeah but unfortunately the Libyan people don't have access to F111s.

[Elhuero]

Yeah but unfortunately the Libyan people don't have access to F111s.

the principle is sound

[theGinsue]

As I said when it started in Egypt.... And so it begins.

[weirjf]

I'm just happy that there is an entire ocean between us and those mid-east lunatics

[BPTactical]

As I said when it started in Egypt.... And so it begins.

The dominos begin to fall.............


"I'm just happy that there is an entire ocean between us and those mid-east lunatics"


Is there really an ocean between us? Everything that happens over there has a ripple effect just as Sniper 7 has already noted. Not to mention how many of these "Lunatics" are our society?