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Muammar Gaddafi. Photo: Wikipedia
With Libyan rebels easily overtaking Tripoli and the end of the Gadhafi regime all but imminent, GOP 2012 hopefuls who opposed the Libya intervention will have to decide whether or not to cheer the apparent success after months of what appeared to be a stalemate. Alexander Burns of Politico notes that former Pennsylvania Democratic governor Ed Rendell, an MSNBC contributor, said on Morning Joe of President Obama, “everyone mocked him, said it wouldn’t work.”
Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, and Jon Huntsman all opposed the Libyan intervention by NATO. Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson wrote an op-ed denouncing the intervention last March:
When are we going to learn? Injecting American military right into the internal strife of other nations with no clear definition of a successful outcome doesn’t work. Our service men and women who are putting themselves at risk, the taxpayers who are paying $600,000 for every Tomahawk missile launched, and yes, the people in Libya we are supposedly trying to help, all deserve to know what the plan is. That really isn’t too much to ask…
Mr. President, or someone, PLEASE tell us what the plan is. Otherwise, just stop. At the end of the day, what is happening in Libya is a civil war against a clearly bad leader. The world is full of clearly bad and evil leaders, and millions of people being victimized by them. What makes Libya special? Simply enforcing a no-fly zone will cost American taxpayers as much as $300 million a week, and that doesn’t include all those Tomahawk missiles and B-2 round trips. More importantly, those are American crews risking their lives. If there is some compelling reason to be doing what we are doing, tell us what it is.
If, on the other hand, we are once again playing cop to the world, we can’t afford it.
