the saddest moment in the libyan debacle

A couple of Muslim hardmen took some British soldiers hostage last week in Libya.
The Brits were special forces, SAS, the best of the best.
Their Prime Minister had told them to go into Libya and establish contact with the rebels with a view to helping them.
And now a rebel unit had taken the SAS men captive.
Yes.
Their Prime Minister had sent the SAS into Libya with orders to kill no one, ie with their hands tied behind their backs.
Otherwise there would have been a lot of dead Muslim hardmen lying around.
The Muslim hardmen in question were on the rebel side fighting against the Gadaffi family murderocracy.
But there have been no precise details as to who exactly they were.
I think we should be told.
I think the Libyan people should be told.
I think the Libyan people should be told because a lot of Libyan people have been massacred this past week precisely because these few anonymous Muslim hardmen took British Special Forces hostage, the same Special Forces who had come to help the Libyan people, and who quite rightly decided on being taken hostage that their help was not desired.
Because those Special Forces went home Colonel Gadaffi And Sons And Fighter Jets And Tank Battallions have been up against milling mobs rather than real soldiers.
He's turned tanks and jets loose on the citizenry.
No doubt the Muslim hardmen who shooed away the Brits, are skulking somewhere in a bunker safe and sound with their Iranian provided radios and Al Qaeda membership badges.
But the people are dying.
Just remember this.
The few ego tripping Muslim hardmen who took the Brits hostage on the hillside are as responsible for the ten thousand deaths as Colonel Gadaffi himself.
But who were they?
My analysis runs thusly.
Some of the rebels are Al Qaeda.
Quite a few of the rebels are sponsored by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Most of the rebels seem to be ordinary people who want a better life.
The idiot Muslim hardmen who took the British soldiers hostage may be made up of any or all of these.
To be clear.
It was either Al Qaeda, the Iranians, or a particularly gormless branch of the peasantry, who took the British soldiers hostage.
What a fine but brief ego trip these Muslim hardmen had.
Taking seven SAS men hostage.
No one ever quite managed to do that before.
The Brit Prime Minister got his men released with a few phone calls and brought them home.
Yes.
It's been a costly bit of ego tripping for the hardmen Muslims.
A few hours chanting "Allah U Akbar," at British warriors who could have cleaned their clocks in half a second, and then the next ten days watching Gadaffi wipe out the rebel army.
Allah u thick as a plank.
Their countrymen haven't stopped dying since.
As I've pointed out Gadaffi has simply unleashed his tanks and jet fighters on them.
No demonstrators, no matter how just their cause, can stand against a strike jet.
Of course Western countries remain understandably hesitant about intervening since so many Muslim hardmen are obviously so willing to turn our soldiers into targets and/or hostages.
The Russians are playing their usual game of warning against outside intervention as the mayhem unfolds, meaning they've given a green light to Gaddaffi to kill all around him.
The Arab League is busy declaring purely notional No-Fly zones over Libya and then looking expectantly at the Americans and Brits to enforce them.
The same Americans and Brits that this same Arab League so profoundly despises.
Meanwhile Gadaffi and his Murder Incorporated sons continue their massacres like there's no tomorrow.
The irony... is screaming.