We've been lobbing cruise missiles and flying sorties to turn cheap Soviet surplus armor into burning slag. Which has been so successful that the Gadhafi loyalist troops are now abandoning their armor and using HiLux trucks like the rebels.
And now NATO has officially taken over command and control.
No US service person is kicking doors, unjamming sand-filled MK19's in the middle of firefights, or being turned into carpaccio by IED's.
The Libyans have made it very clear they don't want foreign boots on the ground. The UN specifically excluded the option from their resolution. There is no popular support for it, anywhere.
The only political wills pushing for it in the US are wingnut hawks like grandpa McCain, who can't seem to get enough American blood into foreign soil.
Those are all undeniably horrible and saddening.
But this simply isn't that kind of conflict.
We've been lobbing cruise missiles and flying sorties to turn cheap Soviet surplus armor into burning slag. Which has been so successful that the Gadhafi loyalist troops are now abandoning their armor and using HiLux trucks like the rebels.
And now NATO has officially taken over command and control.
No US service person is kicking doors, unjamming sand-filled MK19's in the middle of firefights, or being turned into carpaccio by IED's.
The Libyans have made it very clear they don't want foreign boots on the ground. The UN specifically excluded the option from their resolution. There is no popular support for it, anywhere.
The only political wills pushing for it in the US are wingnut hawks like grandpa McCain, who can't seem to get enough American blood into foreign soil.
It just isn't going to happen.