Libyans: Dumber than they look (which is saying something)

Best article yet on why the US should do nothing to help Libya, at all, ever. Interestingly, it doesn't set out to make a case for or against aiding the fight. It merely explains how naive, ill-equipped to lead or organize, and plain dumb the 'rebels' are.

Read it for yourself and then try to make a case for 'intervention'. 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/30/libyan-rebels-no-match-gaddafi

Here's an excerpt:

If there's an ammunition shortage, no one has told Khalif Saed. He was firing off a large machine gun welded to the back of a pick up truck, sending the contents of the heavy belt of bullets darting through the weapon and in to an empty sky.

It's a regular enough occurrence on the open desert road along which Libya's conflict has swung back and forth through this month. Sometimes the stream of fire is celebratory, as earlier this week when it was falsely claimed that Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte had fallen.

In recent days it seems to be more out of frustration as the rebels were forced back in the face of Gaddafi's attack. What it was not was aimed at was the enemy.

Asked why he was shooting when the revolution's military leadership has appealed for discipline and its fighters not to waste ammunition, Saed said simply: "It's my gun."

It isn't. He concedes that he seized it from a military base in Benghazi as Gaddafi's forces fled at the beginning of the revolution. But it says much about the state of the loosely organised rebel militia which foreign governments are now considering arming.