More than 110 cruise missiles fired at Lybia

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Time to buy shares in MisslesRus


Perhaps we can offload some more at Saudi

"A US military chief says a total of 110 Tomahawk missiles have been launched against Libyan sites. He said the Coalition operation has been named Odyssey Dawn."

molerat

Best nip out and fill up now then ....... and take a few jerry cans just in case.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

molerat wrote: »

Best nip out and fill up now then ....... and take a few jerry cans just in case.

I'll join you..

molerat

1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »

............. "A US military chief says a total of 110 Tomahawk missiles have been launched against Libyan sites"

So about 45 will have hit the correct targets then

michaels

Presumably most of the arab world must be well onside with this - can't see the West going to war in this part of the world otherwise - after all they managed to do business with Quaddaffi for all these years and no doubt would be able to again if he were rehabilitated for a couple of years.

I was also really surprised both Russia and China abstained on the UN resolution, normally China especially stands up for non intervention. Does anyone know what is really going on?

zenmaster

molerat wrote: »

So about 45 will have hit the correct targets then

And thousands of civilians killed "to protect the civilians".

jackieb

I thought we didn't have any money? Where did it come from to send fighters over there?

andyroberts1967

1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »

Time to buy shares in MisslesRus


Perhaps we can offload some more at Saudi

"A US military chief says a total of 110 Tomahawk missiles have been launched against Libyan sites. He said the Coalition operation has been named Odyssey Dawn."

Truly sick!!

Ron2256

110 Tomahawk missiles at $1.4 Million each, that's a fair bit more than what red nose day raised on Friday.
Happy days for the arms industry.

Degenerate

GHOUL_BUSTER wrote: »

What a nonsense. We never learn. How many more Muslim countries are we going to attack before we realise it's not the clever thing to do? I haven't seen much evidence of democracy in Saudi Arabia lately so we'll obviously be invading them next.
At least Col. Gadaffi is against Al-Qu'eda. Better the devil you know.

There's one thing that really troubles me. Throughout this episode Gaddafi has been adamant that the rebels are led by Al-Qu'eda. Suppose, just for a moment, that this might be true. How stupid would that make our actions?

It's not that unfeasible. It could be argued to be a lot more believable than popular uprisings for freedom and democracy in the Muslim world. Islam is a philosophy of submission to authority, there is no tradition of personal freedom. A "popular uprising" 30 years ago in Iran turned into an Islamic extremist regime. Even in Turkey, the most liberal of Islamic countries, the population voted in an Islamist government that has only been restrained by the threat of intervention from the secular military.

I'm certainly not suggesting that everyone protesting is a card-carrying jihadi, but they are vulnerable to being led by their Imams and may not know what they have bought into. Who is pulling the strings? Bin Laden made no secret of his contempt for most of the regimes in the Muslim world and his desire for them to be overthrown.

If one thing has been proven in recent weeks, it's that our intelligence on these countries is hopeless and we don't really know what is going on. I have no confidence in our blundering politicians to do the right thing.

Puddleglum

This may be somekind of Orwellian situation inwhich we are now on the side of Al Qaida with no clear recognition of when or how they stopped being the enemy.

Joking apart though- Cruise missiles? I thought that this was supposed to be about no fly zones and stopping people being killed. Instead we've got Biggles and his mates " dropping eggs" all over enemy teritory. Good news for the arms industry and if they can be persuaded to spend that money in the British economy it could even be good news for jobs and libraries and all the other things we have no money for at the moment.