Quote Originally Posted by Dayuhan View Post
The political strategy has been what it needed to be to be consistent with stated objectives of US foreign policy, to satisfy domestic political imperatives, and to avoid handing propaganda points to AQ... all of which are much more important to the US than anything that happens in Libya.
The timing of the intervention was "just in time" to prevent a massacre in Bengazi. That saves everything.

There was dithering right up to the last minute by Obama and it has been well reported how the "three women" pressed him into action.

So I for one am not going to swallow the after the fact spin being applied to turn a dithering last gasp decision into a political master stroke.

Now we see that France and Britain are calling for increased NATO efforts to protect the civilian population. Thereby stating the obvious that the US political hand is very much in control of the NATO effort. I mean who does not know that NATO is mere a surrogate of the US?

(It is noted that the French have also criticised the German efforts)

Now one wonders why the US political strategy is to limit the efforts at protecting Libyan civilians? For example the failure to lift the siege of Misrata.