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    JS> While UN Resolution 1973 clearly prohibits the deployment   
    JS> of ground troops in Libya, as other writers have already   
    JS> noted, and as recent history in Iraq and elsewhere clearly   
    JS> demonstrates, an aerial assault is never enough to achieve   
    JS> military objectives.   
      
    In the last few years the rules have changed. The massacres in   
    Bosnia and Kosovo caused a change to allow the UN to act to   
    prevent genocide and ethnic cleansing.   
      
    In Kosovo the US and Nato forces won with no ground forces.   
    Aerial attacks were enough.   
      
    JS> Sooner or later, unless the rebel   
    JS> forces in Libya are able to achieve military superiority,   
    JS> the American government -- and other UN member states --   
    JS> will be forced to commit ground troops to Libya.   
      
    Or get Egypt to do it. The Arab League is backing the action now   
    also.   
      
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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