Quote Originally Posted by JMA View Post
The simple truth is that they got the strategy wrong.
Yes.
They jumped in...
Yes.
Another example of a decision made by a committee (in Obama style)...It is getting so bad that one must begin to question the moral courage of the chiefs of the services where they (probably for career and pension reasons) choose to play along with the Administration despite the continuing downward spiral in competence.
Not that simple. The West has gotten conditioned to government by Committee. That will be hard to undo lacking a major trauma. Libya didn't amount to a question, much less an annoyance -- as Afghanistan and Iraq were and are -- and doesn't even approach being a trauma. Except for the poor Libyans who are arguably worse off than before. Everything that has happened was easily predicted.

It was a dumb idea in the first place. To do what you wanted early on, which made sense, would have required that someone be in charge. No one was, is or will be and that should have been realized going in in. It almost certainly was by some but the 'do-gooder' mentality overrode common sense. Western 'leadership' is in decline due to the committee-ization of government. No one is in charge. Not in the US, not in the UK, not in France, certainly not in all three together plus others...

I suspect a coalition of JMA, David and Ken would be just as unwieldy.