Quote Originally Posted by carl View Post
Libyan forces possess, or possessed, SA-24s. It is very much in our interest that those missiles be gotten control of. I imagine it would be easier for us to do that given that we are involved in an important way. This may not be a big picture consideration, but if those things showed up in the wrong place it would be bad.
France, Italy and the UK are fairly trustworthy -- in the eyes of many, more so than is the US...

Given the net costs to us thus far even if those Grinches got into the hands of the Evil Enema and were to down a bird or a few, I doubt the cost benefit ratio works out well. That without adding any US efforts on the ground, post conflict (After the screaming about the US getting others to do their dirty work then stepping in at the end to hog glory, credit --and Grinches <--[the eyeroll is for those 'others' folks, not the Grinches...]). As I said, real as opposed to assumed...