Reply #39: You apparently weren't here when Resolution 1973 was passed. [View All]

There were thousands of posts by the same posters who are posting now about how the rebels were everything from CIA expats to oil grubers. Their revolutionary actions were dumbed down and ignored and all the focus was on how evil NATO is and how the rebels were played.

NATO is operating under the auspices of UN Security Council Resolution 1973, legally. Pretending otherwise is just absurd. Gaddafi's regime is disobeying international humanitarian law, illegally. By Monday there will be an arrest warrant for him for the things he's done.

Of course, you're trying to manipulate me into saying NATO is better than Gaddafi. That remains to be seen. We cannot know until after the fact if the Libyan people are glad for NATOs involvement. When NATO hit some rebels they were certainly thinking twice. I remember the first few images of the convoy that was destroyed outside of Benghazi. The people in those pictures looked somewhat pensive, as if the destruction was possibly not what they bargained for. But Misrata would not be free if it were not for NATO.