re: #59 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

I was always taught that when one points a finger, they’ve got four more pointing back at them. You go on a length about this being us stepping into a civil war, but one of the arguments I heard frequently from conservatives during the run-up and early days of Iraq was that our deposing Saddam was because the Iraqi people simply couldn’t do it themselves, that if they were to live “free,” we had to do the fighting for them. That the war there was a “humanitarian” effort, because we were stopping Saddam from committing “genocide.”

Correct…. and I think that is what is really needed in Libya… and Syria, and Lebanon, and Qatar, and …even the always magical kingdom of Saudi Arabia. I don’t think THAT is possible, BUT I think that beating the snot out of the smallest guy in the region sends a signal to the other bullies that their days are numbered.

So what I am really asking is, what is the plan in Libya if it is NOT regime change and handing the reins over to the civilians? We know what it means if the ‘rebels’ lose, but do we really know what happens if they win? In Iraq we knew and could control what happened if we won…