A statesman should address the Libyan people...
...in the absence of statesmanship from across the pond maybe young David should step up and repeat something along the lines of Churchill's WW2 broadcast to the French people.
DIEU PROTEGE LA FRANCE
Broadcast
21st October 1940
Libyan military BDA leads to....regime change?
The ex-UK CDS, General Dannatt has penned a comment, which opens with:
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Headline - Libya crisis: the real task for the world is to remove Gaddafi – but that will be difficult
Military planners will have one key task at the back of their minds, the removal of Colonel Gaddafi's regime.
Ends with:
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When Gaddafi's army commanders in the field realise that, like the Wehrmacht in north west Europe in early 1945, they could move nowhere without deadly air attacks upon them, they will think quickly about their loyalty.
Will they want to continue to show loyalty to their manifestly eccentric leader, or will they think about their loyalty to their country, their families, their tribes, their homes and themselves?
As they experience, or hear stories, of what modern combat aircraft can do to their Soviet-era fighting vehicles, the realisation will grow that there is a better way – and the implied task of regime change may well be on the way to being achieved.
Link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...difficult.html