Or, as a favorite high-desert denizen says:

Place your bets - Which of today's heroic freedom fighters will become the vicious tyrants the U.S. will be fighting in Libya ten years from now?

Obama is the latest American leader to tell us we can have neat little desert wars.

He has, or shortly will, order fighter/bomber attacks and act surprised and outraged when the despicable Godhalfi shoots back. Then we can have another surge.

I look at my pictures of two splendid youngsters just coming into manhood. For how many Libyans would I see them sacrificed?  Friends, there aren't that many, counting  all that are, ever were, or ever will be.
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Adventures in Libya

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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Idle reflection

When your site meter goes bonkers it's a fair bet you have been favored with a Tam trackback, and a few minutes with the "details" and "referrals" columns reveal this woman has readers by the hundreds -- at least -- in the worlds of academia and government.

This gets a fellow asking why academia and government continue to harbor so many slovenly thinkers.

Long ago I subjected myself to the study of that branch of the psychological sciences dealing with need satisfaction. Reduced to its basics, the science holds that if a hungry ass sees a pile of hay, it will eat it. Apparently this is incorrect.
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Beauty in .45ACP

Please go see a great portrait of a Marine veteran -- certainly of Iwo Jima and perhaps of the 4th Marines in pre-war China or Nicaragua in the 30s. Who knows what history it helped make?

To heck with our obsession with shiny newness  in our relics. This one is museum quality.

Thank you, Wyatt.