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Can someone summarize the Lybia conflict?

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manlymatt83

Lifer
I'm normally pretty up to snuff on news like this, but I just haven't been following.

I don't understand the whole no fly zone, sanctions, why we may go to war, etc. What's going on?

Tried googling but almost every article I found assumes you already know what's going on.

Left this out of P&N because I couldn't add my own "insight" and am just looking for facts.
 
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Libya.

Long time dictator has a rebellion, is trying to squash it.

Edit: First paragraph from the wiki entry's pretty good:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Libyan_uprising

The 2011 Libyan uprising began as a series of protests and confrontations beginning 15 February 2011 in the North African state of Libya against Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule with protesters calling for his ousting and democratic elections. By the end of February, it has escalated into an armed conflict with rebels controlling cities in much of the eastern part of the country, Gaddafi controlling Tripoli in the west with fighting and casualties approaching the scale of a civil war.
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Armed uprising against current leader (Ghadaffi)

Ghadaffi is bombing civilians and trying to squash rebellion

International community is using this as a chance to get rid of Ghadaffi and let the rebels take power




That sums it up.
 
Some people think it looks like roast beef. The recent conflict has arisen as many women now seek surgical reductions due to perceived unattractiveness of the overgrowth. Many women think such surgery amounts to mutilation. Hence, the conflict.
 
jonks said:
Some people think it looks like roast beef. The recent conflict has arisen as many women now seek surgical reductions due to perceived unattractiveness of the overgrowth. Many women think such surgery amounts to mutilation. Hence, the conflict.
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Haha 🙂
 
jonks said:
Some people think it looks like roast beef. The recent conflict has arisen as many women now seek surgical reductions due to perceived unattractiveness of the overgrowth. Many women think such surgery amounts to mutilation. Hence, the conflict.
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lol
 
- A bunch of crazed muslims want to overthrow their crazy muslim dictator.
- Europe wants to take Libya's oil and does not want a flood of Libyans to their shore.
- France is especially outspoken since it receives (received now, I guess, due to conflict) a sizeable share of Libya's oil exports.
- As usual everyone wants America to do the dirty work despite us not really having any interests there.
 
A country's people rebelled against their dictator and won. Neighboring country's people went "Oh snap!!! We can do that?!".
 
- Libya has oil
- Libyan citizens see what's happened in Tunisia and Egypt and get inspired to rebel against the Libyan government (Gaddaffi)
- Unlike Tunisia and Egypt, Libya's army is loyal to Gaddaffi (most of it at least) and is being successful in quelling the rebellion
- certain countries (EU) care what is happening in Libya because it has oil
- US loves to throw out the freedom line and as a result of that, gets dragged into this ordeal because Gaddaffi looks more like the bad guy oppressing his people
 
Yes: Libya got an Internet connection and started spamming Egypt with "I'm the leader of a country, send money to release funds..." scams. The people in Egypt became so angry they called out Muammar Gaddafi. Libya and Egypt are really tight, see, and when the people found out that Gaddafi was messing their their hommies, they went off on him. Gaddafi started bombing the people trying to attack him with earthquake bombs, but one missed and hit Japan. The earthquake caused a tsunami so powerful, it hit the coast of California. At the time it hit, Batman was battling Jack Napier in a chemical factory, and when the tsunami hit, it knocked Jack into a vat of chemicals, where he turned into Charlie Sheen. And now, Charlie Sheen is inflicting terror to the citizens of the world.

That's basically it. In a nutshell. From what I understand.
 
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*Brutal dictator fucks up his country by engaging in pointless wars, building up secret police and monopolizing power for himself and corrupt cronies
*People fear his son will be as bad or worse
*Revolutions sweep neighboring countries
*Civilians rebel
*Dictator orders his army to slaughter innocent civilians to put down the rebellion
*Libya's diplomats appalled, some resign and criticize dictator, spread rumors (some false, like him leaving the country for Venezuela) that cause more to join the rebellion
*Portions of army refuse to slaughter the innocent, join rebels to fight those who would order them to do such
*Dictator hires mercenaries from other countries to slaughter innocents, tells people that their country is being invaded
*International community sits on ass afraid of another Afghanistan or oil supply disruption
*Dictator's tanks, planes, artillery, mercenaries halt rebel advance
*More army units seeing which way the wind blows decide to stay put
*Dictator counter-attacks and the tide turns in favor of the dictator
*Dictator on the verge of crushing rebellion, international community decides to threaten military action
*Dictator claims he has paused to pacify the international reaction, continues to slaughter the innocent, not sure if international community is serious
*This thread is created
 
Americans, after over a decade of constant war, declining economy and world status, change the channel and rush to the pharmacy to buy iodine pills causing mass panic and stomach cramps.
 
Schadenfroh said:
*Brutal dictator fucks up his country by engaging in pointless wars, building up secret police and monopolizing power for himself and corrupt cronies
*People fear his son will be as bad or worse
*Revolutions sweep neighboring countries
*Civilians rebel
*Dictator orders his army to slaughter innocent civilians to put down the rebellion
*Libya's diplomats appalled, some resign and criticize dictator, spread rumors (some false, like him leaving the country for Venezuela) that cause more to join the rebellion
*Portions of army refuse to slaughter the innocent, join rebels to fight those who would order them to do such
*Dictator hires mercenaries from other countries to slaughter innocents, tells people that their country is being invaded
*International community sits on ass afraid of another Afghanistan or oil supply disruption
*Dictator's tanks, planes, artillery, mercenaries halt rebel advance
*More army units seeing which way the wind blows decide to stay put
*Dictator counter-attacks and the tide turns in favor of the dictator
*Dictator on the verge of crushing rebellion, international community decides to threaten military action
*Dictator claims he has paused to see international reaction, continues to slaughter the innocent, not sure if international community is serious
*This thread is created
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This is clearly the turning point of the conflict. We will surely see more important events to come 🙂
 
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