High_Gravity
Belligerent Drunk
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I was under the impression that tanks were being destroyed from the air by US / UK / French jets.
But I'm not really following this story....
Some of them are but once Ghaddafi gets tanks inside the rebel cities there nothing we can do, we can't bomb the whole city otherwise we kill the rebels as well. The rebels need RPGS, Rocket launchers and missiles to counter the tanks and other heavy weapons from Ghaddafis army.
I'm sure they do, but I don't know enough about exactly who the rebels are to know whether or not these should be given to them. History indicates that putting military supplies in the hands of "rebels" tends to lead to them being fired back at us further down the road.
That's the reason I have absolutely no problem with waging an aggressive air campaign. With satellite surveillance and control of the air it should be extraordinarily difficult for Gaddafi's armor to get into rebel held areas without being spotted and taken out from the air.
You would think so however several reports say Ghaddafis forces are beating back the rebels even with the air support. Either NATO is being soft with the air strikes since they took over or we are not getting to all of Ghaddafis guns on the ground, in either case it looks like rebels will need alot more help if we want to tilt this war in their favor, I agree with you completely about just handing the weapons over to them though.