doubt many are listening.

• At 11:53am on 23rd Mar 2011, Maria Ashot wrote:
  Yes, Q is calling for jihad, powermeerkat -- another reason he ought to be tried in an international court.
  
  I doubt many are listening.
  
  But it is instructive that in the case of the Belgrade bombing, nothing definitively changed in the mush that passes for the "leader's": brains until the TV and radio installations were taken out.
  
  More importantly, as the UN resolution obviously precludes the use of ground forces, but makes the freedom & self-determination rights of the Libyan people the paramount motivation here, it would not be wrong for the UN to begin to send some kind of experts in -- not troops -- to help organise the obviously traumatised and stressed opposition groups, who constitute the majority of the Libyan people.
  
  Some are calling for arming them, and that may indeed be necessary, but let's not forget also that there are plenty of people, with UNESCO, WHO, MSF, the World Bank etc who are skilled in helping turn deeply distressed communities recover and organise themselves. Once there is some organisation on the ground, it makes it much easier to see who is actually a leader, who is a helpful idiot, and who is an infiltrator or mentally unstable anarchist.
  
  And I am sure the Arab expatriate communities also have qualified people, trained engineers, and experts who could be brought in -- they would not be violating the "no boots on the ground" promise.
  
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• 93. At 11:55am on 23rd Mar 2011, powermeerkat wrote:
  MM "president [Obama] had demanded that "They had to restore gas, electricity and water and allow humanitarian aid into those towns."
  
  
  
  
  Well, Mark, Japanese government has been trying hard to do so, but the situation on the ground is tough. [9.0 + tsunami = 9.0 + tsunami]