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Originally Posted by HPLovecraft
Well, this is a war being fought over cities -- cities hold civilians, which the UN is said to be protecting. If Ghaddafi targets a city (and the rebels therein), he gets bombed. I'd say it's more of a no-win situation for his regime than anything. I think the wording of the resolution was very carefully considered for these reasons.
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Oh I agree with you, as long as the UN sticks to protecting cities and civillian areas this should be positive. But . . . and I'm playing devils advocate, the Rebels attack Libyan forces, retreat to a civillian area and the UN bombs the crap out of the Libyan counter attack, then the Rebels take advantage and take more real estate, that would in theory go against their mandate then.
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Originally Posted by HPLovecraft
Honestly, I don't see Ghaddafi having a chance at this point. His neighbours hate him (he tried to kill King Abdullah!), half of his military and government hates him. The rebels might not be able to take the whole of Libya (definitely not the cities that are most loyal to Ghaddafi), but I wouldn't be surprised to hear about Ghaddafi's assassination by someone in his government or military that realizes the time for that regime is over.
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He's nobodies fool though, as much as he's a cartoon character the guy is surrounded by either his virgin guard, or mercenaries who are loyal to Ghadaffi's money, I doubt anyone gets close enough to pop him. Besides Ghadaffi see's himself as the great Middle Eastern Liberator, I'm sure that he's more then willing to fight to the last bloody shred of humanity and make himself a martyr in the process.