Scott Horton

Libya was created not even after World War I, it was created after World War II.

And it had always been these two or three major kingdoms and had been cobbled together by Qaddafi's predecessor.

And then he took power himself.

He was the second leader of the new country.

And so when America took sides there, it was basically people from the far east of the country

rising up and, you know, aging very much a geographical battle of east versus west and moving westward, where it made logistical sense, operational sense for, not strategic, but operational sense for

american planes to fly as their air cover and help them advance and take town after town after town as they advanced to the west of the country and eventually sacked tripoli right there's just nothing like that here and nobody believes that there is a force on the ground that they can do this with

I actually did LOL this morning when I read in the Jerusalem Post that the Shah Reza Pahlavi III or whatever says, yeah, this is my final call for everybody to rise up and prepare for my arrival.

Yeah, right.

They parachute him and all his people in there.

They're going to get mowed down and they would have to parachute them in there.

How else are they even going to get them in there?

They couldn't drive them in from any border or any shore.

So they would have to parachute them in and they would immediately be killed.

And so they have, you know,

no solution really whatsoever to enforce.

I've talked with Robert Pate the other day, who famously wrote those books about why people become suicide bombers.

It's the foreign occupation.

He also is an expert on why air power doesn't work alone anyway.

And obviously air power is important, but you have to have a hammer and an anvil.