Back to Libya...

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I'm still not sure this is our fight.

I absolutely agree but I feel like we completely fucked this up. Misrata is "under seige" today and I understand there are a large number of civilian casualties. The hospitals are overwhelmed and they're trying to shift patients to Benghazi (where the hospitals are also overwhelmed, lacking medical supplies etc.).

So we go in and say we're there to protect civilians--and we're not able to do that. We gave the rebels a certain amount of false hope. I'm not sure there wouldn't be fewer casualties if we'd just stayed out of it from the get-go.

I hate failure. I think it's demoralizing, it's a waste of money (bye-bye million dollar Tomahawk missiles), and it makes us look weak and ineffective.

If we couldn't (or wouldn't) do what it takes to accomplish our goals all the more reason we REALLY shouldn't have gotten involved in the first place.