Nightly Britain bombs Tripoli. Bar death, what do we achieve?

Jenkins misses a point that if the politicians decide that military intervention is necessary then the military must salute and get on with the job.

The thought of some chinless wonders in the civil service being able to constrain the will of an elected government is more scary than what the Bush/Blair combination got up to.

What has led to the failure is that the military were constrained in how they were carry out the intervention to the point of an emasculated effort.

Yes Cameron and Sarkozy were probably influenced to act through domestic political pressure but were unable to carry out any meaningful intervention without the US leading the charge.

A reluctant Obama agreed to a solid 48 hours to kick the intervention off but then through the council of his chorus of clowns came up with the "no boots on the ground" crap and left the rest up to hopelessly inadequate NATO assets while remaining firmly in charge.

Anyone remember the three stooges?

The West is not only in trouble on the economic side, international foreign policy is in a total shambles...