Barack is acting like a g.d. Bush neocon, trying to remake the world in neocon fashion and attempting it on the sly.
Problem is this. What IS, is for reasons. If Saddam is in charge in Iraq or Mohammar in Libya, there are reasons behind that, a whole culture behind that. You don't just haul off and remove the top man and some generals and ministers and everything suddenly falls into place for an America-lovin' democracy. Don't work that way. If you are in the game in order to effect regime change then you are intimately embracing the tar baby and lobbing bombs around like a high-tech coward is not worth jack shit.
In the case of Libya, U.S. and western intervention was sold to the press and to the UN as the only way to protect lives. But at a certain point, when it comes to lives lost the toll behind our bombing and killing Libyans and the overall casuualty toll for extending the rebellion outnumbers the lives that would be lost from Qadaffy's winning over the rebels.
And suppose Khadaffi is out and the rebels in, what does that mean? Peace and enlightenment and democracy? Probably not.
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