re: #341 wrenchwench

You prescribe diplomacy here? You mean, speaking with Khadaffi? To what end?

There are plenty of available options for the international community here. The “end” would be negotiating a peaceful (emphasis on peaceful) transition and succession of power. Perhaps not immediately, but in the next several months or years.

The diplomatic means available don’t simply stop at calling Gaddafi and asking him to resign. There are many ways to place additional pressure on his regime i.e. internationally respected sanctions.

The way in which the U.S. and NATO have opted to go about this will only play into Gaddafi’s propaganda, and allow him to paint the rebels as a puppet of the West.