Well, the misadventure in Libya proves to be more than just a few Tomahawk missiles-- it seems to be turning into a third war. This war has been engaged upon by a President elected out of disgust over Iraq, and engaged upon without any Congressional approval. The war is being waged without any clear objectives, and without a timetable for withdrawal. Remember back in 2007, when a timetable for withdrawal was Obama's sine quo non for Iraq? And Libya is being engaged in while the Afghanistan misadventure looks more and more hopeless. The high irony of Iraq and Afghanistan is that Iraq was always the controversial war, the one that was a quagmire. Now it is Afghanistan, the "good" war that is becoming Vietnam all over again. In Serbia (you know, that first Clintonesque use of force, the one that was intended to take everyone's eyes off the Monica Lewinski scandal?) it was not that we left off bombing of our own volition, it was that the Russians informed us that if we didn't quit bombing Sarajevo, they might explode an Electromagnetic Pulse Weapon over America. I wonder how long it will take before the Russians end our misbegotten wars in Afghanistan, and now Libya.
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