The No

Fly by The Seat of Your Pants Zone


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12856665

Watch how NATO is saying the UN mandate does not go further than this- the No Fly Zone.
And the No Fly Zone is to "protect the civilian population" meaning it cannot hit civilians.
It cannot target Khadaffi, it cannot target his forces. It has to merely take out anything that could fly like missile capability, air force, etc. And by all accounts it has largely done that in a week already.
So now the game is all about ground troops- because the battle is on the ground and the NATO air force assault has its hands tied by the construction of the UN resolution which forbids anything other than enforcement of a No Fly Zone. Even US commanders have construed that to mean that it is a limited mission to disable air assaults.

But the whole game is on the ground. And Khadaffi has an arsenal and funds notwithstanding freezing his western bank assets to fund a vicious military campaign. If Western forces intervene in a civil war, which this clearly is, then Western forces are going to come out bloodied beyond imagination. The opposition forces are facing a well financed army arsenal. They are literally playing with toy guns.

The best case scenario for OBAMA now is if Khadaffi somehow bites the dust by his own military coup-style turning on him (no signs of that)- Who can we bribe there? Money seems to make people turn color pretty quickly.