by Maisie Allison
Douthat says Libya skeptics should enjoy the raw significance of Qaddafi's fall:
Qaddafi’s defeat doesn’t necessarily promise a happy outcome in the long run, but at the very least it guarantees that we will spared that particular worst-case scenario, while holding out the possibility of a Libya unified and at peace — rather than a Libya partitioned and perpetually patrolled by Western forces, which is where we seemed to be headed a month ago. Declarations of victory are ridiculously premature, but for a country and a White House starved for any sort of good news, the fall of Qaddafi should be cause for (suitably restrained) celebration.
The Dish 