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• At 16:33pm on 20th Mar 2011, Scotch Git wrote:
  
  If they really have no wish to deploy troops on the ground, we'd better hope and pray that none of our pilots and navigators are forced to eject behind enemy lines.
  
  
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• 16. At 16:44pm on 20th Mar 2011, Scotch Git wrote:
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  James,
  
  Arabic names and words are, in English, written phonetically. Variant spellings are common.
  
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• 17. At 16:45pm on 20th Mar 2011, matt-stone wrote:
  
  Mark is right to say Obama is not as war-mongering as G W Bush or Tony Blair were in their approach to the invasion of Iraq. Obama would rather we all live in peace with other races the world over. Being of mixed-race himself, this is understandable and he can more easily identify himself with people of colour than would be the case with Bush and Blair.
  Its getting more and more obvious that the conflicts now raging in the Middle East and N Africa is conducted in racial basis, both the US and UK favouring to side with the European state of Israel at the expense of doing little or nothing at all help the Arabs when ever they're attacked or their land settled on by the Jews of Israel. If we want peace, then we must get rid of our prejudices.
  
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• 18. At 16:51pm on 20th Mar 2011, Oldloadr wrote:
  First off, Arabs are as heterogeneous as the Anglo sphere. There is no monolithic “Arab Stret.”
  
  2. If any Arab country participates in the Libyan operation, that is a bonus. That fact that at least 2 are actively trying to get their assets in position is huge. The political reality is most people who hav3e a brain know that Q has to go. However, the US can’t take him out. The best possible outcome would be for Q to die in an airstrike by an Arab owned fighter aircraft.
  
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• 19. At 16:53pm on 20th Mar 2011, peterbo wrote:
  
  
  
  "The head of the Arab League has criticised the bombardments.
  
  His comments are significant because the Arab League's support for the no-fly zone was a key factor in getting UN Security Council backing for the resolution authorising the move"
  
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  China and Russia have already expressed buyer's remorse. This ill-conceived debacle, IMO is a lose-lose:
  
  
  1) Failure, if Qaddafi somehow holds on
  
  2) Failure, if Obama & Co impose some kind of rule through marionettes/separatists, or if Islamists/AQ gradually take over
  
  
  
  Any "collateral damage", in the meantime, may provoke some very interesting reactions in the Arab souks, and among the significant Muslim communities in Western Europe.
  
  
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• 20. At 17:02pm on 20th Mar 2011, berult wrote:
  If you could stage a pan African ballot on 'whom, which one in power would you go to for 'in trusting' that person with your socio-political future', who would that person be?
  
  If you could stage a pan Islamic ballot, Shia and Sunni alike, with a likewise interrogation, who would that person in power be?
  
  ...and on and on until you run out of real estate and are confronted with a bunch of surreal head of States in whose fiefdom this fundamental question need never be asked...
  
  Has then Obama failed in his sacred task, or has he not delivered the message that  an empowered conscience needs openly dither before answering the question he stealthily prayed we'd never ask...?