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The NYT is salivating about the options for intervention, running through all the cool technology that Obama has at his disposal, including "muscular" ships and other gadgets, drooling over the possibility of a bit of "gunboat diplomacy" and enthusing that "Rebel commanders have begged for American strikes". They wish ... http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/world/middleeast/07military.html?_r=1&src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fworld%2Fmiddleeast%2Findex.jsonp Of course it is still possible that Gaddafi will be history before a US response is ready. The situation is too fluid to know, but the army seems to have been singularly ineffective to date in using its superior firepower to retake any rebel-held locations bigger than a village, and that only temporarily. And all this Ramboesque fantasising seems right out of step with the confused and cautious approach being taken by the leadership of the West. Cheers, John ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
