that they re dependent on the libyan cell phone system to communicate among themselves in the field, and that s depending on the people they re fighting. we could be giving them satellite telephones. there s a lot we could give them that would make a difference. i agree the things that make more difference take time, but i think moving in a dramatic way and making it clear that we re not going to accept a stalemate will work with the opposition. bob, is it tough to shut down libyan government communications, to shut off their satellite service and to give communication equipment to the opposition? no, that would be easy. and i think we could shut down their communications. it would take a little bit of effort, but i ve seen this done before as paul knows. it could be a little more effort and we could do it. we have to close this place down and we ve got to get this over fast because it s becoming a very nasty civil war.
libyan cell phone system to communicate among themselves in the field, and that s depending on the people they re fighting. we could be giving them satellite telephones. there s a lot we could give them that would make a difference. i agree the things that make more difference take time, but i think moving in a dramatic way and making it clear that we re not going to accept a stalemate will work with the opposition. and we ll work as quickly as we can and might bring a quicker end to this thing. bob, is it tough to shut down libyan government communications, to shut off their satellite service and to give communication equipment to the opposition? no, that would be easy. and i think we could shut down their communications. it would take a little bit of effort, but we could do it with c-130s. but i ve seen this done before, as paul knows. it could be a little more effort and we could do it. we have to close this place down and we ve got to get this over fast because it s becoming a
that would be tough, but there are some things that are simple. let me say one, i don t understand why it is that the egyptian satellite television that broadcast libyan state television so that gadhafi and his son are able to go on the air and threaten the libyans, why we ve done nothing to shut that down. you heard in your clip earlier that they re dependent on the libyan cell phone system to communicate among themselves in the field, and that s depending on the people they re fighting. we could be giving them satellite telephones. there s a lot we could give them that would make a difference. i agree the things that make more difference take time, but i think moving in a dramatic way and making it clear that we re not going to accept a stalemate will work with the opposition. bob, is it tough to shut down libyan government communications, to shut off their satellite service and to give communication equipment to the opposition? no, that would be easy. and i think we could shut d
guaranty that they re going to make any progress whatsoever. and this is fairly surprising given that before the real impediment for their advances was the libyan air force. the libyan air force is now gone. there s a no-fly zone. there are nato air strikes. there s several in the area of brega today. but that doesn t seem to be able to provide that critical breaking point they need to move forward. they re still plagued by this chaotic system. they don t have any command and control. they don t even have communications because the cell phone system in this area has gone down. so it is chaos. and it s hard to imagine how they re really going to make any progress whatsoever, given the lack of command and control, given their basic ignorance and how to act, how to function in a battlefield environment. we talked about this before, but ben, has anybody people i m sure, some people said to them, don t just keep firing in
egyptian satellite television that broadcast libyan state television so that gadhafi and his son are able to go on the air and threaten the libyans, why we ve done nothing to shut that down. and done nothing to enable to the opposition to broadcast. you heard in your clip earlier that they re dependent on the libyan cell phone system to communicate among themselves in the field, and that s depending on the people they re fighting. we could be giving them satellite telephones. there s a lot we could give them that would make a difference. i agree the things that make more difference take time, but i think moving in a dramatic way and making it clear that we re not going to accept a stalemate will work with the opposition. and we ll work as quickly as we can and might bring a quicker end to this thing. bob, is it tough to shut down libyan government communications, to shut off their satellite service and to give communication equipment to the opposition? no, that would be easy. and i