Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area.

Khadafi’s still making hash out of Libya, and his thugs capturing a Dutch military aircrew who were trying to evacuate two Europeans from the chaos isn’t going to help his cause any - and may go a long way to explaining why the US moved its ships closer to Libya.

Hugo Chavez is trying to inject himself into the situation, offering to mediate, although one has to wonder what kind of mediation he wants when Chavez is well known for stifling dissent in Venezuela and making attempted end runs around the legislature and the law to impose his distorted economic policies.