horse of george

"... let's ask the cold hearted question: this uprising was poorly thought out, poorly equipped, disorganized, absurdly idealistic and utterly incapable of sustaining itself without significant outside help - what's more, even if it had been successful these 'liberators' and 'democrats' as Cole ludicrously chooses to define them would have been entirely incapable of governing the country and at a complete loss to fend off the warring tribal factions and other ruthless counter-revolutionary forces that would have emerged to compete for power against them [and who, by the way, are still in the wings waiting for their moment] - in other words, this 'democratic leap' [again, as Cole with blind self service to his ideology chooses to dishonestly define it] would have been absolutely unable to survive without us stepping in to somewhat save the day - is this really a precedent that we want to be setting? Do we really want to be encouraging something like this? Has any one considered the possibility that Obama took so long to jump in because he in fact doesn't really want this putative revolution to succeed, at least not totally, since success might make a larger US presence an absolute necessity? That what he was really hoping for here was a truce that splits the country along its natural east/west tribal fault line and leaves behind a revolutionary rump small enough to abandon to the stalwart competencies of the redoubtable UN and the illustrious Arab League? I dunno - is that notion so much crazier than all the other guesses people are making as to what the hell Obama actually has in mind here?..."