When leaving Libya, make sure to bring the flag.

[Grand58742]

Are those 7 countries any different now?

The point being that Wesley Clark never looked at the memo and is going off what someone "told" him. I'd be more than willing to bet the military had plans for something along those lines. I'm pretty certain they have plans for the invasion of Canada if it came down to it.

Plans =/= acts. And with Clark wanting a shot at a POTUS run in 2004, he needed his name out there.

[T2C]

How we handled Libya and managed the fall of Gaddafi was a giant goat ****.

[chuckman]

How we handled Libya and managed the fall of Gaddafi was a giant goat ****.

....not entirely unlike how we did the same to a few dozen other countries over the years....

[TehLlama]

....not entirely unlike how we did the same to a few dozen other countries over the years....

Yeah, but at some point that becomes a meaningful observation on how our foreign policy repeats the same actions expecting the opposite of what history indicates are the results of that policy making. Same idea of only an idiot does the same thing and expects a different result, who do we have making those decisions that is working so hard to recreate myopia induced foreign policy failures, and why?

[SOWT]

Libya has been on "the list" for a good while now.





http://www.amazon.com/The-Grand-Ches.../dp/0465027261

King Wesley is still pissed because he didn't get his grand ground war in Kosovo.

[KalashniKEV]

...who do we have making those decisions that is working so hard to recreate myopia induced foreign policy failures, and why?

It's a different person every time. Every person in every position is always moving up and out on ~2-3 year cycles (and that's at the top).

The problem isn't that the policy makers don't understand the consequences of their actions, it's that they are beholden to special interests (especially at the top).

There are a countless examples of it, but our foreign policy does not often align with the national interest... and often times is 180 degrees out of synch.

[ALCOAR]

KEV, I failed miserably at my sarcastic attempt of a reply earlier in this thread.

[KalashniKEV]

KEV, I failed miserably at my sarcastic attempt of a reply earlier in this thread.

I apologize... I think the Obama criticism threw me off...