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Thread #136495   Message #3199621
Posted By: Ron Davies
01-Aug-11 - 08:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: Bombing of Tripoli March-April, 2011
Subject: RE: BS: Bombing of Tripoli March-April, 2011
"ceasefire followed by negotiations".    No.    And what's more I think the poster knows why.    I have already alluded to the problem.

The Gaddafi regime still has more money and more weapons--thus more staying power. As the poster well knows, the Libyan war is already unpopular with sizable numbers of Westerners---including the poster himself.

Once the West stops bombing Gaddafi's forces, it will be very difficult to persuade various Western electorates to start up again.   But without that the rebels will be stymied.

Which I think is what the poster has in mind in his disingenuous call for a ceasefire.   Either that or he is not thinking through the consequences.

We may still see an unofficial ceasefire-- for Ramadan--and the problem I have noted will become obvious to all.

Also, if we accept a partition of Libya--against the wishes of both Gaddafi and the rebels--we accept the legitimacy of Gaddafi's regime.   And he will have a legal claim to at least part of the frozen funds. With results I have already noted.