Poor NATO are in an awful mess and we probably don’t know the half of it. To bomb or not to bomb- that is the dilemma, but they are damned both ways. A military problem requires a military solution: the “pacification”of Libya requires massive armed force on the ground a possibility which certainly is not being openly considered and is politically and financially risky in the extreme if not simply impossible. The truth is that the new formula of terrorists and mercenaries on the ground backed by massive air power has not worked: the legitimate government of Libya, it’s armed forces and the armed people, to say nothing of the volunteers from throughout North Africa and the Arab world are resisting effectively and are gaining ground. It is politically, morally and financially very difficult to continue bombing of this intensity indefinitely. What can NATO do without being exposed before the whole world, along with their massive  entourage of apologists, as the liars, warmongers and war criminals they  really are? Oh dear! Oh dear! Oh dear!

Members of the NATOmilitary alliance parted company Wednesday over how quickly to halt the six-month bombing campaign in Libya, and the dangers of doing so if fighters loyal to Moammar Kadafi, the country’s deposed strongman, are still engaged in armed resistance.

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