Unpublished Rhyme

As a personal aside, whacking a guy like Khadafi is not a bad thing, at least in theory. I felt that way about Saddam Hussein. At the time, it seemed to me, what is the downside to taking a guy like this out? Naiveté is a valid mitigating factor once. Carried on into perpetuity, it gets to be a bit much. We can’t fix every rotten bastard out there without a fundamental overhaul in how we view the world and the amount of standing military we are willing to support indefinitely. And if we did—which we won’t—and even if our reasons for doing so were the purest ever known in history, eventually, we’d all be worse off. Empire is not a good game these days, if it ever was.