From the Washington Post:
U.S. officials are becoming increasingly resigned to the possibility of a protracted stalemate in Libya, with rebels retaining control of the eastern half of the divided country but lacking the muscle to drive Moammar Gaddafi from power…
Once again, we either should have gone in weeks before we did when the rebels could have won it easily with a little support, or we should have gone in with both feet. Now, I can’t see us finishing this except by the employment of US ground forces…and I figure the best use of such forces would be to drop on Tripoli like a thunder clap, hoping that the sudden appearance of US Marines and Airborne troops there would cause Gaddafi’s forces to give up and seek a way out…and then we turn that city over to the rebels as soon as they can drive from Benghazi, and we get out.
If we keep on as we are, then we’ll just have a drawn out, expensive operation where Libyans will keep suffering and dying with no end in sight. Meanwhile, our enemies will be encouraged as they see us unable to even get someone as small time as Gaddafi out of power. This is just a bad situation rapidly getting worse – the result of putting in to office a man of no knowledge and no sense.
2012 can’t come fast enough…
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