December 22, 2003
Libya
Libya has been off my radar for years and for those of us who haven't been paying any attention to Libya for a long time Qadhafi's recent fold on WMD's appear to naturally follow from Bush policy. We are wrong.
Josh Marshall points out that:
The Libya deal looks like an especially good example of the Bush Doctrine in action if you haven't been paying any attention to Libya for the last dozen years.Read his short article and the references.
And Juan Cole argues that
... the real reason Qadhafi just folded is economic. And the lesson to be drawn here is that under certain circumstances, economic pressure can work, and remove the need for war.Lesson: do your homework before locking in your evaluation of a current event. Posted by Steve on December 22, 2003
