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Thread #136495   Message #3325548
Posted By: Teribus
20-Mar-12 - 01:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: Bombing of Tripoli March-April, 2011
Subject: RE: BS: Bombing of Tripoli March-April, 2011
"1 year later .... interesting

Looking back Gaddafi seems rather mild compared to Assad.

But then ... there is the oil, and that is what it was really (sadly) about."


Ehmm No, not about oil at all.

Prime movers in both cases has been the Arab League

In Libya the United Nations Security Council passed a Resolution that allowed the international Community to act. In the case of Syria two countries used their veto which has prevented anything from being done.