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Originally Posted by STEED
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When they said they want to have a no-fly zone, in my mind, back few weeks ago already, this meant:
1) destruction of AA defences
2) destruction of armed forced attacking rebel strongholds
3) destruction of airfields
4) destruction of aircraft on the ground capable of mounting challenge to the allied craft
Now. Where's the surprise? Wtf do people expect or think no-fly zone means?! Of course they're gonna do all of the above and during night.
And OF COURSE Duffy will wage an information war because that is the ONLY war he has a chance of winning if he does the following:
1) show pictures of people in hospital
2) show pictures of dead people
3) preferably show pictures of wounded or dead women and children
4) deploy fanatcis as human shields
5) continuously run this on TV and hope that:
a) people in west become outraged (with usual fundamental liberalism it won't take long)
b) Arab nations start freaking out (already working)
SO it's quite predictable how it's developing. Question is does UN force know how to handle this? I guess NO. hence' the way this is looking like it's a stalemate and won't end anywhere.
I think the point is to really really put pressure on Duffy - enough to make his entourage get desperate enough to throw him under the buss - the Mubarak move.
BUT, the TIMING of this is as bad as it can be. We're barely out of global recession, have to deal with Japan's fallout concequences and supply chain damage and now we go ahead and throw rockets under soft belly of old Europe. Sucky timing indeed.