Quote Originally Posted by Ken White View Post
Six months later, I still contend there is not an ounce of real as opposed to presumed or wanna-be assumed US interest in Libya. If Europe has a problem there, then Europe should address it. None of our affair. Could be a US domestic politics and budget influencer, though. Surely those wouldn't be considerations...
Although, in fairness, it was Europe that did most of the lifting on this. By my count, the US conducted perhaps 30% of the sorties over Libya, and perhaps 20% of the combat sorties.

Certainly the rest of NATO couldn't have done it without US support. However, in some of the media commentary I've seen you would think this was a US operation with European (and Canadian support), not vice-versa.