Yesterday Hot Air reported:
"The foreign minister of France, which was spearheading the push for a NFZ initially, flatly admitted today that it's probably too late now. Qaddafi rolled over the rebels in Ajdabiya last night and is poised to utterly devastate the last rebel fortress in Benghazi, so by the time the Security Council passes a resolution and NATO scrambles to begin operations against Libyan air defenses, the entire country may be back in Qaddafi's hands. (So quickly are the regime's troops advancing that when Newsweek published this piece last night about a "decisive" battle to come, that battle was already basically over. Already the news has shifted to Benghazi's defenders "bracing for death.") Even the rebels know it's too late for a NFZ: Yesterday they expanded their requests from a no-flight zone to include airstrikes against Qaddafi's compound in Tripoli. They're not strong enough anymore to take him out so they're begging us to do it for them."
There was no quarantee that if the rebels succeeded in overthrowing Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi that the government that followed would be friendly to the United States. I can, however, guarantee that because President Obama has stood back and refused to help the rebels, if by some miracle the rebels succeed, they will not be friendly to the United States. Why would they be? We used to have something called 'black ops' which took care of things like this, but the Church Committee in 1975 limited our activies around the world. We have never fully recovered from the actions that committee took. What we really need is Mitch Rapp.
I am truly sorry that we cannot find some way to help the rebels in Libya. I don't want to send troops into Libya, but a few well-placed predator drones would have been a really good idea.
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