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"It's not that kind of conflict" is about the dumbest thing I've heard this month. To call it a shaky legal basis is giving it too much credit, and politically it's an incredibly dangerous precedent.

Heh, well, I'm not in favor of even a minute-long effort, so to me anything that reduces the overall cost to us is a plus.

That's one possible scenario, but the one I'm thinking of illustrates the point that the right person can make decisions just as bad as any made by a committee.

The air campaign has a...

I'm not sure it's all that accurate to describe the issue as being based in number of people involved in the decision. Not to put too fine a point on it, but that statement itself smacks of politics....

Re: US as empire--That seems like a technicality when we've shown a ready willingness to topple governments to get what we want. We're not using our military to do it, a lot of the time, and we're...

This may be six of one / half a dozen of the other, but I think it's the fact that we're an empire. Our approval offers too great an advantage, and our disapproval comes at too great a cost, for us...

Given Libya and Cote d'Ivoire, it seems like Sarkozy may be trying to push France into that position.

Does anyone think that victory for the rebels is possible without the support of foreign...