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(this post was reblogged from cjchivers)
What you think of gun-running likely depends on how badly you think you need guns. To the people of Misurata, the hastily assembled fleet has been a savior. Its crews have shuttled not just weapons and ammunition, but all manner of supplies — baby formula, antibacterial surgical robes, bottled water and the sorts of medicines that can be woefully hard to acquire in a siege, such as chemotherapy drugs for patients whose treatment was suspended by the onset of war.
- the NYT’s C.J. Chivers
