Ross Douthat is disheartened by the news from Libya:
I find it extraordinarily unlikely that American ground troops will ever enter Libya. But unless France and Britain rush in where President Obama obviously fears to tread, we seem to be headed for exactly the situation I feared at the beginning — in which Qaddafi is bloodied but still dangerous, and NATO is stuck safeguarding an East Libyan protectorate more or less indefinitely.
My feelings entirely. Notice how this not-war has completely dropped out of the press? Just another imperial obligation, without an actual empire to make sense of it.
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