Civil War in Libya

[Tellos Athenaios]

Indeed, let's dump a bunch of weapons in to Africa and try to play God in a small third world conflict. And when those weapons end up killing babies in the Congo in 10 years, I'm sure we'll all be suitably outraged. Have we learned nothing? At least when we did this in the Cold War it was based on broader strategic concerns and not pure emotion.

Thankfully, the Obama administration seems to at least understand the concept of plausible deniability.

Which means that the only real responsible way to aid the rebels (if we choose that) is boots on the grounds. Plausible denial is simply incompatible with responsibility (indeed the whole thing is designed to skirt responsibility).