The President has diverged from the old Kissinger vision of America as the long-riding, lonesome gunman galloping into town to shoot down the bad guys. He swears we're just hanging around on the edges to tend camp while the French (!), the British, and maybe even some outside Abduls do the heavy lifting. Sure.
So be it, and it is damned unpatriotic to think about the other nations-in-need-of-building on the Washington to-do list. I suppose Yemen would be next, though Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and maybe even Qatar are in the running.
I must have missed Obama's recall of Paul Wolfowitz to high government office.
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The Washington Post reports we already have five surface ships on the outskirts of town, including two Arleigh Burke DDGs.
One of them is the USS Barry whose motto is "Strength and Diversity." Find what irony you like in that.
Another is USS Stout of recent regime-change fame. Unofficial motto -- "Get Some."
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According to our ever dependable news media, France, Britain, et al have imposed a No Fly zone over Benghazi. OK, I get that. But, can somebody explain to me why some French fighter jets knocked out three Libyan tanks in the no fly zone? That's tanks, folks, as in very heavy, lumbering, tracked vehicles. Hard to get off the ground. JAGSC
Re-illustrating that truth is the first casualty.
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