Stop worrying about an "exit strategy." What America needs in Libya is an entrance strategy.
By Christopher Hitchens
"The embarrassing failure of NATO's strategy with the Libyan "rebels" is easier to understand when it is contrasted with its closest parallel case, which is probably that of Kosovo."
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Christopher Hitchens (1949 - 2011) was an Anglo-American author and journalist. His books made him a prominent public intellectual and a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. He was a columnist and literary critic at Vanity Fair, Slate, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. He was named one of the world's "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Britain's Prospect.

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Go After Qaddafi
April 25, 2011
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Hopefully, and necessarily, many more. HOWEVER, with the sacrifice of finances and blood by China, Russia, Germany and the other head-in-the-sand, appeaser democracies.
How many more "entrances" can the declining American empire make? We are not 19th century England. We don't have the resources to fix our rotting infrastructure.
Good for Hitch...makes Orwell shortlist...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13194815
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