Kev, (I like Kevvy better, seems so cuddly, but want to be serious).

Please read this quote and then tell me who wrote it: “The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed an idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him.”

Ok, guess you give up. Re-read Leo Tolstoy,1897.

Could have been a buddy yours, if he could have suffered your banalities.

Jeez, Kevvy! We agree! Phenomenal!

The coalition’s discussions about giving Gaddafi a way out is an overture to putting troops on the ground.
It’s like America’s hesitation to accept a no-fly zone, and then, no sooner that it was approved by the UN, it took the leading role.

Offer medical aid to the victims of Gaddafi? Are these people out of their mind, or what?

How about helping the rest of the civilised world to minimise the number of victims instead?

Noted.

The current situation is practically already a stalemate which may turn to Gaddafi’s favour.

Yes, and we’re still waiting.

Don’t forget the twins to finish off the pretty picture.

Hmmm, time for another declaration of interest.

Much of Gaddafi’s army has in fact defected and Gaddafi is relying on mercenaries with Toyota pickups almost as much as the rebels are.

What the rebels and the defected military personnel lack is the organizational structure and the infrastructure to support the military equipment that they have managed to seize.

What might work would be to have a relatively small number of foreign ‘advisors’ guiding them and providing communications and to some extent logistics. Has been done before and seems to work, at least sometimes.