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 JS> While UN Resolution 1973 clearly prohibits the deployment
 JS> of ground troops in Libya, as other writers have already
 JS> noted, and as recent history in Iraq and elsewhere clearly
 JS> demonstrates, an aerial assault is never enough to achieve
 JS> military objectives.

 In the last few years the rules have changed. The massacres in
 Bosnia and Kosovo caused a change to allow the UN to act to
 prevent genocide and ethnic cleansing.

 In Kosovo the US and Nato forces won with no ground forces.
 Aerial attacks were enough.

 JS> Sooner or later, unless the rebel
 JS> forces in Libya are able to achieve military superiority,
 JS> the American government -- and other UN member states --
 JS> will be forced to commit ground troops to Libya.

 Or get Egypt to do it. The Arab League is backing the action now
 also.



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