Never Has So Little Been Owed to So Few

Do you really think the British-French led intervention in Libya can last long enough to overthrow the Khaddafi regime when the British can't afford combat pay for their small number of pilots engaged in the fight?

Britain is pleading poverty for not paying their Typhoon and Tornado pilots in Libya the $48 a day "dangerous duty" bonus that pilots receive in Afghanistan, or anywhere they are getting shot at. This has not helped pilot morale, because the dangers from ground fire are actually higher in Libya than in Afghanistan.

In the field of human kinetic activity, this is just embarrassing all the way around.