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Written by Scott Taylor
One of the most ironic developments to emerge from the ongoing crisis in Libya is the reaction from American military pundits to the fact that China dispatched a warship to the Mediterranean Sea.
Described by media outlets as a “4,000-ton frigate, fully armed with air defence missiles,” or simply as a “Chinese missile ship,” the Xuzhou would appear to a layperson reading only the news to be both massive and powerful. In addition to the self-defence, surface-to-air missiles, it was noted that the Xuzhou also possesses a utility helicopter.
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 If there is one thing clearly emerging from the situation in Libya, it’s that the fog of war is as obfuscating as it ever was—even in this high-tech information age.
Despite the accessibility of Internet, mobile phones, satellite imagery and countless other means of instantaneous social networking, the early media reports coming out of embattled President Moammar Gadhafi’s fiefdom have been consistently inaccurate.
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 There is certainly no shortage of conflicting reports coming out of the crisis in Libya, making it almost impossible to formulate any clear picture of what is evolving.
It would appear that what was originally being labelled a spontaneous public self-liberation from an evil despot is in fact becoming something much more akin to civil war.
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 As a regular patron of the same gym for the past few years, my vocation has become known to several of the full-time staff. As an admitted news junkie with constant access to cable TV, one employee in particular has a habit of greeting me with questions about world events.
For the longest time these questions were focused primarily on our troops in Afghanistan, with a routine query about when I would make my next foray to that war-ravaged country.
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 It is true that Egyptians gathered en masse to express their displeasure with the three decades of authoritarian rule they had endured under President Hosni Mubarak.
But when debating whether we have witnessed the miracle of spontaneous democracy springing up, it needs to be remembered that Mubarak was a favourite of the US.
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