The nice thing about the Libya engagement is that Obama's ambitions are so shallow and tactical that it's really easy to say where it's right and where it's wrong. I'm in agreement with Ross Douthat who lets us know three things. The only way to save the rebel cause is to get to a ceasefire soon. The only way to get a ceasefire soon is to decapitate Kadafi. The only way to decapitate Kadafi without boots on the ground is to have the CIA do it (they don't wear boots) or have Kadafi's own generals do it.
So isn't it interesting what that means? It means we have to get buddy buddy with Kadafi's own generals, but somebody nobody really knows. In other words, we have to pay somebody high enough in Kadafi's dictatorship to run the country and turn him against Kadafi. Can there be a more corruptible individual than such a toad?
This, my friends is why I have been saying that GWBush's greatest achievement was to put the US Military out in the sunshine. Now we are back to the Reagan era with all sorts of murky plausible deniability and working with shady characters via the CIA.
Boots are not as bad as you think.
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