They are tired of being foot soldiers in the heavy artillery ground battle that is large-scale patent litigation.
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Turkey has launched ground, air and artillery attacks on suspected PKK bases in northern Iraq, which is generally under the control of the Iraqi Kurdish regional government and its forces.
It includes ground troops with supporting artillery, amphibious assault vehicles and light armour, plus transport and attack helicopters and perhaps AV-8B Harrier jet fighter-bombers, capable of taking off and landing vertically.
As a result the Liberal Democrats face a choice between contesting the middle ground against opponents with heavier artillery, or trying to establish a new and more defensible position on their flanks.
The week-long fighting in Qusair intensified early on Saturday, when activists reported heavy bombardments, including two ground-to-ground missiles and an air strike as well as artillery and rocket fire.
In addition to the air strikes, Israel's army said that naval and artillery units had "continued to support the ground forces" overnight and reported one soldier lightly wounded.
Six months living in holes in the ground that he had to dig out everyday, listening to artillery shells going off and explosions all around him.
The noise was like an incoming artillery round, and then it just crashed right into the ground.
Despite the pounding of the Gore heavy artillery, the Texan, with a few wobbles but no gaffes, held his ground.
When the Air Force became independent from the Army in 1947, the latter service retained lead responsibility for ground-based air defenses which at the time consisted primarily of anti-aircraft artillery.
It has resorted increasingly to airstrikes, artillery barrages and surface-to-surface missile attacks to reach rebel-held areas where loyalist ground troops no longer operate.
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