If the reporting from the New York Times can be believed, Gaddafi’s forces are all over downtown Benghazi, including snipers atop the Foreign Ministry building. Good luck dislodging them without using any foreign ground troops. It could take months. Every day that Gaddafi remains in power is going to be an embarrassment to President Obama, David Cameron, Nicholas Sarkozy, and the United Nations. It’s not a great omen that they are losing the opposition’s capital on the first day of fighting. I don’t want to hear much more of this happy-talk about this being about protecting civilians. This is a down and dirty civil war and our side is getting routed. The policy may lead to some kind of political breakthrough that will make everyone look brilliant, but as a military strategy it is totally for shit.

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