DYHALTO'S PROFILE

Hydrolancers. They give 2000-2500 exp per battle which is great for my 7500 teammates. Lilliana, always in the party, hit 99 long before any of them.

It's more like I'm rebutting what Robert Fisk said, but here goes.

author=Feldschlacht IV
"Over the last few months you've seen an Arab awakening in which millions of Arab Muslims have overthown their own leaderships," he says.

"Bin Laden always wanted to get rid of Mubarek and Ben Ali and Gaddafi and so on claiming that they were all infidels working for America and in fact it was millions of ordinary people who peacefully, more or less - certainly in the case of Tunisia and Egypt - got rid of them."

The "revolutions" in Egypt and Tunisia are time-will-tell situations, but I'm not optimistic.

The basic premise of a revolution is that the revolutionaries take control. A complete overhaul of the entire political system is done.
Classic examples of revolutions are the American Revolution and French Revolution. In the American one, the Americans threw out the British and cut them out of the political system like a gangrene leg. In the French one, the French people cut off the heads of whatever monarchs and royalists hadn't fled the country, then instituted a Republic.

In the Tunisian "revolution", a bunch of people demonstrated, there were some violent clashes between overzealous peasants and police stormtroopers, Ben Ali resigned and fled the country, a caretaker coalition government was formed (consisting of ex-Ben Ali supporters no less), and then the demonstrators went home.
That's like getting rid of Obama and elevating Biden. Very tepid and weak-willed.

In the Egyptian "revolution", a bunch of people demonstrated, there were some violent clashes between overzealous peasants and police stormtroopers, Mubarak stepped down and announced his resignation as President, and the country was taken control of by a military council (aka a military junta).
If anybody can cite an example in history of where a military junta has been beneficial for the people, please point it out :)

author=narcodis
Isn't France leading the offensive in Libya?

Yep.
Nikolas Sarkozy also spearheaded a recent gunship strike in the Ivory Coast which is getting no media attention at all. Too bad, because it looks like it could become Rwanda 2.0.
I wish people would stop letting aloof politicians who've never seen blood decide how to utilize the nation's servicemen and women.

author=InfectionFiles
Also, the rebels WILL lose if they are not supported by a superpower.

But isn't that the problem?
If the majority of Libya were to rise against Ghaddafi, he would be destroyed. Historically it only takes about 10 to 25% of the population to successfully revolt, depending on a couple dozen factors. At the very least, it would look like Afghanistan or Iraq where civilians are providing food and shelter in the cities. If you look at battle footage (plenty of it uploaded to youtube), it looks more like trench warfare out in the desert.
The fact that NATO states have intervened is a decisive "We want the rebels to win" on their part.

author=Nightblade
Get out of here with your...FACTS. Hey! Isn't it about time for another one of Karsuman's asinine poems about how this guy is somehow a snob?

I'm sorry :( I hadn't realized how much of an upright bitch I was coming across as.
/me builds pillow fort, codenamed Terran Bunker

Karsuman pointed out to me that I was being a holier-than-thou prick, so I'll lay off. Sorry about that.
But I just want to point out that if you think American politics is a random chaos of greed and incompetence, you're only partially right. There is a huge amount of "Deus Ex-esque level" type of coordinated conspiracy going on.
The Federal Reserve, for example.

You're oversimplifying me a bit.
It's not that "everything the government says is a lie" so much as "the government has an agenda". Or the people operating the government have an agenda, anyhow.