What happens if Qaddafi wins?
What happens if 12 months from now, there is no kinetic military action in Libya, no more NATO supervised strategic bombing missions killing, among others, innocent civilians, no more “rebels”, and Muammar Qaddafi is firmly in control of his country?
It will symbolize the decline of Western nations, their values, their ability to wage wars, and it will open up new opportunities.
The new opportunities will be for Qaddafi to acquire nuclear weapons, for other dictators in other parts of the world to act with more brutality, and for other rogues and renegades to take power wherever and whenever they find it.
It is as clear as day that Western nations should never have interfered in Libya. If you can’t win, don’t start.
President Obama will lose even more respect than he’s lost so far bowing and scraping to every world leader outside the US.
It may cost him an election. I certainly hope so.
