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Libya

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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.

Joy to the World

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Well, maybe. The Philosorapter wanted us to take out Saddam in Gulf 1 but now he’s not as happy as he might have been then:

So no, I’m actually not in ecstasy about Saddam’s capture. It’s not that I don’t despise the guy, and it’s not that I don’t recognize how wonderful it is that he’s history.

Go read the whole thing to see what’s bothering Winston.
Via Nurse Ratched.

bush is busy

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Sawyer interviewing bush:

And he signaled to Sawyer he has a bit of a Rose Garden strategy in mind for the campaign:
�early in the process there�ll be all kinds of pressures to respond to this, or respond to that�
�and I just want to warn you, I�m going to do my job. I got a lot to do. As we say, the dance card is quite full these days.

Yep, fund raising takes a lot of time.
Via Skippy.

11 Lessons from the Vietnam War

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Bilmon posts these from Robert McNamara’s memoirs:

But for the most part, McNamara’s eleven points are a pretty good capsule summary of the lessons that should have been learned from Vietnam, but which weren’t — in large part because the people now running the foreign policy of the U.S. government have never even been able to face up to the fact that we lost the Vietnam War, much less understand why we lost it.

Go read them.