re: #88 Targetpractice

So, what was an acceptable body count in Libya, beyond which we would have been compelled to act? Was there a red line, an action Col. Mo could take, that would be so unacceptable that those who now wish to argue in hindsight that inaction was preferable would have balked at?

I think an acceptable body count in Libya was one that didn’t lead to months more of of that war, plus two spillover wars that have led to thousands more dead.

Because I’ll be perfectly honest, the argument sounds like the Realpolitik arguments of the Cold War, the idea that supporting a dictator was “okay” so long as he waved an American Flag while executing “communists.”

Who’s talking about “supporting” Gaddafi? What I’m advocating is non-intervention. I support less war, not more war. This insane idea where the US feels it is their job (I’m Canadian FYI) to intervene somehow in every single conflict in the world leads to more war and more deaths, including the questionable Cold War policies you refer to.