In Tripoli, Libya the day after American and European forces began the series of air strikes against the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. Reported by The New York Times, Qaddafi intends to fight all the way to the end when he declares,
Speaking of a “long war,” Colonel Qaddafi said: “We will not leave our land and we will liberate it.”
“We will fight you if you continue your attacks on us,” he Qaddafi said. “Those who are on the land will win the battle,” he declared, warning without explanation that “oil will not be left to the United States, France and Britain.”
He is confident that his forces on the ground would win the war in the end. He has just recently opened military depots to his supporters and the Libyan people. Qaddafi is preparing for battle, quickly, expecting to be hit again by the US and its European Allies. However, President Obama already declared that he would use any American ground forces when he says,
“I am deeply aware of the risks of any military action, no matter what limits we place on it,” he said. “I want the American people to know that the use of force is not our first choice, and it’s not a choice that I make lightly. But we can’t stand idly by when a tyrant tells his people that there will be no mercy.”
With America making attacks from the sky and Libya retaliates from the ground; who knows what the outcome of this war will be. All we know now is that it won’t be pretty.
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