jamesdevice,
The statement "the whole of the NATO military machine" is clearly absolute rubbish!! A significant proportion of the NATO military machine is in Afghanistan, for one thing. The Libya deployment amounts to slack handfuls of tanker, recce, fighter and bomber squadrons. NATO still has more of those assets in reserve - and also has further land forces (completely un-involved in Libya) and naval forces to boot. A better conclusion to draw from progress in Libya is that a relatively small deployment of forces - with no politically-risky ground force presence - is having effect.