{"id":52458,"date":"2014-06-28T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=52458"},"modified":"2014-06-27T19:24:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T23:24:41","slug":"libya-the-cautionary-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52458","title":{"rendered":"Libya, the cautionary tale"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Liberals, history started the day they were born, or in this case, the day they came into office at the White House – everything is new again. So, in regards to Libya they claim that they learned a lesson never before discovered in history, according to the Tribune<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Now, as Obama considers a limited military intervention in Iraq, the Libya experience is seen by many as a cautionary tale of the unintended damage big powers can inflict when they aim for a limited involvement in an unpredictable conflict.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Iraq and Afghanistan are examples of overkill and overreach, Libya is the reverse case, where you do too little and get an unacceptable result,\u201d said Brian Katulis, a Middle East specialist at the Center for American Progress, a think tank. \u201cThe lesson is that a low tolerance of risk can have its costs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though they succeeded in their military effort, the United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies fell short in the broader goal of putting Libya on a path toward democracy and stability. Exhausted after a decade of war and mindful of the failures in Iraq, U.S. officials didn\u2019t want to embark on another nation-building effort in an oil-rich country that seemed to pose no threat to Western security.<\/p>\n

But by limiting efforts to help the new Libyan government gain control over the country, critics say, the U.S. and its allies have inadvertently helped turn Libya into a higher security threat than it was before the military intervention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I guess that never happened in Beirut in 1983 or anything, or on October 3, 1993 in Mogadishu. Who would have thought that we could do more damage without enough commitment to applying military force in a given situation. Or that we could place Americans in danger by not being serious about their security and the support we give them?<\/p>\n

Yeah, well, I’m just worried what lesson they will teach themselves next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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