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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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...
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