U.S. and allies launch first missiles against Gadhafi forces

[shitstorm]

Here's my problem with this endeavor. Obama is saying that he doesn't intend to send groundtroops in to Libya. Check. The goal of this effort is to prevent Gadhafi from killing his own "citizens". Check. So, once we bomb the shit out of their air defense systems and set up a no-fly zone, and bomb any tanks or military that appear to be threatening the rebels/citizens then what? Do we patrol there forever?

And suppose Gadhafi were to step down (haha), get himself killed or some of his own military turns against him. Then what? What's left is a great, big power vacuum.

I don't think we've learned that you can't just go in and blow up a regime without having some plan or infrastructure in place. Chaos ensues and then, of course, we have to send in "peacekeepers" while a new regime is established and some semblance of order is restored. Witness, Iraq.

And Libya seems to be just one in a series of dominoes that are teetering or falling in that area. To the extent that rebel activity is somewhat succeeding in one area, it seems to be inciting more activity in other areas. The whole freaking area is a powder keg right now.

Smells like ^^THIS, and he and Jimmy Carter were the SOBs who got the US involved in this radical Islam bullshit in the first place.