Quote Originally Posted by Rex Brynen View Post
Although, in fairness, it was Europe that did most of the lifting on this. By my count, the US conducted perhaps 30% of the sorties over Libya, and perhaps 20% of the combat sorties.
That's a good start. Perhaps for the next such effort, we can cut that small percentage of ours even more.
Certainly the rest of NATO couldn't have done it without US support. However, in some of the media commentary I've seen you would think this was a US operation with European (and Canadian support), not vice-versa.
I think they could have done it with no US support, though it might've been a bit -- just a bit, seriously -- harder in spots.

Perhaps it's a perspective thing but I don't get that US centric sensing from things I read -- I only very rarely watch television -- and most of the visuals I've seen have been of other nations (Canada well represented...).

BTW, I meant the Euro-centric bit for any ground effort. Neither we nor Canada have much business being involved in that IMO. YMMV.