An excellent post from Spencer Ackerman asks us not to draw lessons from the Libya intervention until it’s at least over.
The extent to which the media is failing to even fight the last war on this one is pretty amazing. We remember Saddam Hussein’s fall from power, right? And the Northern Alliance’s triumphant entry into Kabul? Western policymakers seem to feel that they’ve learned valuable lessons from those experiences that they’re applying in their approach to Libya. I hope they’re right, but nobody will be in a position to know until after we get to that part of the conflict. Today I’m still reading about fighting in different neighborhoods in Tripoli.
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