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Because it can not be over emphasized. Forgetting this fact will lead to much confusion and upset.

How about giving them vintage Land Rovers? With vintage Lucas electrical systems? ;)

We, the United States and NATO, are now engaged in an undeclared war against one party (or both parties, depending on what day it is) where the casus belli is a doctrine entitled Responsibility To...

The military may have allowed it because they were ordered to, but I vote for political ineptitude at the top as the root cause.

No, I wouldn't have gone with that. I would have supported intervention, just as I did support intervention in Bosnia and Rwanda, and would support intervention to stop any attempted genocide in the...

No he didn't.

He said in post #462


I suggest an apology to Fuchs for misstating his position is due. .[/QUOTE]

By way of explanation, Fuchs had not only been asserting that taking out the...

You have been asserting that it was inappropriate to use cruise missiles to eliminate Libyan air defense. You haven't yet presented any coherent justification for the assertion. (And I'm including...

True, if the loyalists are gracious enough to site the air defense batteries where we'd like them to be. Otherwise, arbitrarily declaring where we do and don't need to fly on the basis of the...

Which is why I think we should have sat this one out. Getting screeched at by the usual cast of characters and not spending billions of dollars for the privilege is far more appealing than getting...

However, you are suggesting we bet the lives of U.S. and allied pilots. Not one many of us are willing to take.

On the other hand, asking us to bet your life would be fine. :D

(And any...

From Der Spiegel:

Apparently it will be primarily the British and French, could start within hours and could include action against ground forces.

Because they were seizing our ships and enslaving the crewmen.

Here is an excellent conservative counterpoint. On the NRO Libya Editorial, I Respectfully Dissent

I don't think ICG is inhabiting the same reality as the people in Libya:

"The alternative option, which Crisis Group has advocated, is to engage in a vigorous political effort to achieve an...

I agree that the old techniques may not work in today's world. So far, though, all we've seen are the old approaches favored by the domestic Left side of the Cold War. We, as in the "Capitalist...