Quote Originally Posted by Seamonkey View Post
What’s the deal with a “military option” on the table in Libya?

I’ve got my head buried in school work the past couple weeks and don’t watch TV but I am aware of the revolts/riots/civil unrest in the Middle East. Just wondering, with all these countries having revolts and some of the governments opening fire on the protesters (Bahrain) what’s the deal with Libya?

I realize the Navy’s got the Gulf covered and the rest of the land lubbers have bases in Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain and all the rest…. So why is there talk of military action in Libya and not in these other countries?
The only military option that's being discussed is enforcing a no-fly zone. Ghaddafi is using attack fighters and helo's to try and defend Tripoli. This is what the F-117 and F-22 are made for, I'm sure we could burn up a few AGM-78/AGM-88 eating radar sites around Tripoli.

I'm all for keeping those aging Mirage and Eurocopters sitting on the tarmac. We enforced no-fly over northern and southern Iraq for a decade.

However, I'm incredibly opposed to putting US military boots on the ground in-country. We need another war in the middle east like we need a hole in the head.

Oh, and why Libya and not Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Yemen (yet), Saudi Arabia? The answer is easy: Only in Libya is the old power regime using aircraft against the rebels.

H.