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Originally Posted by Bakkels
A former minister of foreign affairs here made a comment about that yesterday evening: they are actually waiting until Ghadaffi enters Benghazi, or is at it's doorstep. That way they have a legitimate humanitarian reason to intervene, which makes it harder for anyone to criticize them afterwards. Kinda made sense I thought.
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Make sense?
Attacking enemies inside a city is more difficult, and bears greater risk of collateral damage. Also, house-to-house combt is a nasty affair - hostiles having entered the city could hold out long there, even if their supplies lines outside the city get interrupted by air raids.
To call this a situation that makes sense again means that political reality-distortion is undermining military reason.