Oh, and people who like to indulge themselves in the idea that any country can be bombed into a prosperous democracy need to get their heads checked.

Iraq = Bombed Into Democracy

Afghanistan = Bombed into Democracy

Half of Germany – Bombed into Democracy

Thats just from the top of my head.

Liberal interventionism has saved more lives than it has ever taken and by several folds.

Its too late for a NFZ in Libya, the window is gone.

As for Saudi intervention, well they are a monarchy and Col. Gadaffi is hardly the poster boy of Sharia law anyway.

I don’t think Antony will be inherently against buying an American MRCA. But if they are to win it will be on merits and or costs (bang for the buck) and not politics.

Antony is a man of his word. If he says no politics he would rather resign than back track.

well i don’t want to go into a detailed one though I would have like to. But time and OT makes me limit it. One of the major fears that US & Europeans are having with the NFZ might be the scenes of Somalis —– remember “Black Hawk Down”.

Its a bad dream for the US still now. And a NFZ will definetely have some a/c casuality in the first days and do you think Libyans citizens on the ground will be able to control their anger seeing the Pilot that just bombed their Nation?

That happened because like now there was a democrat in the whitehouse then. President G.W.Bush in his book talks about how the withrdrawal from somalia emboldened Americas enemies.

Again totally different Scenarios, If the Americans/Europeans use standoff weapons/ F22 the chances of casualities are limited. In Libya its the foriegn militia fighting its people and not Libyans fighting Libyans.

Also you cannot call an elected leader a dictator, he may not conceede to demands of leftist unions, but Sarkozy has the mandate of his people and he or his party will have to face his people in an election one day. Gaddaffi don’t have to.

Arabs backing the NFZ, want participation. Tiffys got more chance 🙂

he’s just trying to put pressure on the GoI to take it forward quickly. it isn’t going to be signed before he retires. Not a chance.

Twenty rupee bet ?

India-Brazil-Japan-Sweden 🙂

Its from the ACM and looks like he wants to leave behind a good legacy.