But but but.. Zero said no boots on the ground! Wait, what? Special ops is already on the ground? he lied? no way!
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Tactically - this appears to be a major snafu.
From what I’ve heard we are not sending in ground troops. From what I’ve seen at various news websites (pictures and such) - the “rebels” we are supporting are a fairly rag-tag group riding in Toyota trucks with machine guns. Tactically (and I’m intentionally leaving the politics out of this post)...they are only capable of following up - unimpeded - behind our (U.N.) air strikes. So without sending in ground forces all we can do is pin Gadaffi’s forces into cities like Tripoli. We can’t “starve em out” because it’s a huge city and that would mean starving hundreds of thousands of innocent civillian inhabitants (not exactly a humanitarian thing to do). Plus Gadaffi has TONS of money they say...$6 billion in gold in the Bank of Tripoli alone...along with billions in other currencies....so he can continue to pay his soldiers (if I’m not mistaken I read where he just gave every soldier a promotion). So what the heck can you do?
we do not have boots on the ground
we have flipflops on the ground and therefore plausible deniability
Where is the story about the pilots who ejected when their plane malfunctioned? Who were they? How were they rescued? Where were they rescued? Where are they now? Why haven’t we heard more about this?
Yes remember, “days” not weeks and no boots on ground...Wow, how short do they think our memories are?