Libya, a third war?

[RadioRaheem84]

The Obama administration warned Wednesday that a federal shutdown would undermine the economic recovery, delay pay to U.S. troops fighting in three wars, slow the processing of tax returns and limit small business loans and government-backed mortgages during peak home buying season.

Three wars?

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I thought that Libya was not a war but a humanitarian mission?

Also, a buddy of mine recently joined the Army and the recruiter told him that most likely he might be sent to Southern Italy due to the Libyan crisis.

Does it look like Obama may escalate the situation into a ground war?

[Lenina Rosenweg]

Its debatable whether the Libyan war was preplannned-The intervention seems to have a logic all its own, kinda like the Romans conquering Cisalpine Gaul-intervention calls for more intervention and than more.US/NATO has committed itself to the rebels and has created a comprador government. The rebel forces are militarily negligent. High ranking leaders of Qaddaffi's regime are "defecting" most likely signals have been sent out threatening Libyan leaders with war crimes triasl (obvious hypocrisy of course).Qaddaffi has far more staying power than many people thought. I would say there will be "boots on the ground" within the next several months.Politically it has to go in that direction and obviously military plans are already in place.

Libya is just the beginning of course. In this era when increased capital accumulation faces insurmountable crisis there will be more and more of this. Capitalism is a "mad dog" confusedly lashing out in all directions.Can we take it down before it takes us down?

[Robespierre Richard]

I find it quite funny that the Libyan military has adopted guerrilla tactics that make it hard for the intervention to even work. Like, I thought that they would be total idiots like Saddam Hussein's generals were, but even with an inefficient third world army that exists as a sort of political machine, they are still able to win. Maybe Qaddafi will make it through this after all. I doubt they'll have much of a ground war though except arming the rebels with even more weapons they don't know how to use. The only thing they can't find is a massacre, which with all the cameraphones the Libyans have you'd think they would find by now, but instead we just get craters with Toyota trucks in them, random beatings by Qaddafi's goons that have happened for decades, and the occasional street lynching by the rebels.

[China studen]

humanitarian mission?
The mission of the imperialist invasion!

[RadioRaheem84]

Libya is resembling the Balkan situation a lot.