{"id":187738,"date":"2011-03-17T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/17\/so-theres-a-no-fly-zone-in-libya\/"},"modified":"2011-03-17T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T23:20:00","slug":"so-theres-a-no-fly-zone-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/17\/so-theres-a-no-fly-zone-in-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"So, There&#8217;s a No-Fly Zone in Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Security Council just passed it.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s war, by any other name.<\/p>\n<p>I think that this is a bad idea, and whatever emerges at the other end, and my money is still on Qaddafi, the opposition will now lack legitimacy, as will a successor government.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Drum has an <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2011\/03\/obamas-accidental-success-libya\">interesting take on this<\/a>, which is that administration ambivalence on this actually led to the widespread support necessary for the Security Council resolution.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure, but I feel that this won&#8217;t end well.<\/p>\n<p>When one backs a revolution, one expects some say over the outcome, and looking at the history of that, (*cough* reinstating the Pshaw of Iran, which lead to the current theocracy *cough*) it never ends well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Security Council just passed it. So it&#8217;s war, by any other name. I think that this is a bad idea, and whatever emerges at the other end, and my money is still on Qaddafi, the opposition will now lack legitimacy, as will a successor government. Kevin Drum has an interesting take on this, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[981,986,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-middle-east","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}