Revolutionaries, if "realistic" in the slightest degree, would have been
> raising an army of Egyptian volunteers (former conscripts, thus
> well-trained) to fight Khadafi, and demanding that it be fully supported by
> Egyptian military resources.
>
No.
This is Libya's battle. They have to fight it -- and they will. They have to win it -- and they will. All the UN forces are doing is accelerating the end of an awful dictatorship. Take out the dictator's heavy equipment, and the rebels will win with the fewest possible casualties.
-- DRR