What, 1500 have drowned so far trying to flee Libya in makeshift boats since humanitarian effort started? And how many more, trapped in besieged cities, have died? Another 1000, 2000? Not to mention the infrastructure destroyed. A war entered into ostensibly to stop a theoretical massacre has instead created a quite real one - and who knows what's to come - I personally think odds are only divine intervention or the presence of a large occupation force will be able to stop a civil war from erupting once/if Qaddafi goes bye bye - so, can we add another 10,000 deaths there?
But let's forget the virtually indefensible humanitarian aspect of this war - let's look at Obama's whole 'leading from behind' nonsense - Gate's in a speech in Brussels has basically come out and said, you remove the US military from the equation and NATO is nothing short of a joke - they can't even manage the logistics of a relatively easy air campaign over a minor threat like Libya without extensive US participation and backup - so I guess Obama's plan to marginalize the US military [always on a top ten wish list for lefties everywhere] is looking less then inspired.
And what has the American press spent the last three days fixated on? Sarah Palin's emails from when she was governor of Alaska - they've been going through those like the very secret of life was buried in them - and the funny thing is? Turns out there's nothing particularly embarrassing in them - some spelling mistakes - in fact Politico, which when it started was pretty even handed in it views but has since skewed increasingly to the left - but regardless, they I guess had no choice but to write a review of the emails today the upshot which said Sarah comes off looking like a pretty capable governor.
