Failed British Diplomacy: would it have been more effective in safari suits?

Is is just me or is the thought of a bunch of SAS and MI6 operatives roaming around your backyard a scary thought? Now, take your backyard to Libya and it is a very threatening thought. These guys are meant to be able to blend into the background but I'm pretty sure they'd stick out like sore thumbs in a country which is basically in the middle of a civil war. It also seems to me that this kind of 'mission' was wholly unnecessary, that's if the initial reason given by the Foreign Office is to be believed. The reason given was they wanted to make contact with those leading the rebel movement, which to me has a certain whiff about it. In today's modern age of social media and amazing telecommunications it seems somewhat barbaric to send our best thugs in there in such a manner.

Next time a situation like this occurs we should, without sounding condescending, send in the safari suits on a camel train to make contact. Picture the signature scene from Lawrence Of Arabia mixed with Death On The Nile and you have and idea of what I'm thinking. Get the likes of James Fox and Maggie Smith on the Foreign Office payroll and send them in. Bloody magic!

'I say old chap................' - far less confrontational.