David Shorr defends the war on humanitarian grounds. His colleague Eric Martin counters:
Despite these harbingers of future unrest, there has been a dearth of planning for the postwar transition period. Which organizations/nations will be overseeing that period and acting as peacekeepers? Under whose auspices? On whose dime? For how long? Backed by what political will? What if peacekeeping forces come under attack? David closed his piece by noting, "we're nowhere near a set of unintended consequences that outweighs the carnage that would have resulted from a failure to resist Gaddafi." My response would be, "We're nowhere near the end. Period."
The Dish 