[kristinn]

Thomas Ricks ripped President Bush and Donald Rumsfeld for years over Afghanistan and Iraq. Now he wants us to wage war on Libya. Incredible.

[Dixie Yooper]

No matter which side we choose to provide arms to, those same weapons will someday be used against Israel or even us.

[ScottinVA]

Thomas Ricks ripped President Bush and Donald Rumsfeld for years over Afghanistan and Iraq. Now he wants us to wage war on Libya. Incredible.

Isn't it interesting how those anti-war zealots suddenly become pro-war when one of their own is in the White House? I'm for sitting this one out. We gain nothing by killing Gaddafi, and lose nothing by letting him kill rebels. It isn't our fight.

[Prokopton]

How about none of the above.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Why not let Obummer meet with Ghadafi “any where at any time without a preconceived agenda” as he claimed he would do with any leader dozens of times when he was campaigning.

[bill1952]

>Using Special Operations troops to corner and then capture or (if he insists) kill Col. Qaddafi.

LOL Yes, thats it! Create millions of new terrorists in a second!
These fools act like Mo has no domestic support.
That is simply brain dead - and wrong.
He has plenty of support.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Let Libya wither on the vine and go for Saudi Arabia.

[headstamp 2]

How about Ricks going over there and doing it himself.

[Walts Ice Pick]

Invading Libya seems to me a project best left to the private sector.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

I guess the “Save Libya” bumpersticker will fit right underneath the “Save Darfur” and the “Free Tibet” bumperstickers.

[Frantzie]

Counting the days til The Saudia Royals get what they deserve including Fox/CNN/ABC Prince Al Waleed.

[The KG9 Kid]

Here's our hero, Tommy 'Commando-Ass' Ricks in the flesh.

(Dare not making wise cracks about him looking like a soft pudgy faggot because his hands are registered as deadly weapons with the police department)

[org.whodat]

Tell dumb-ass Thomas Ricks to get his army together and take off, but remind him a true leader leads from the front.

lots of luck Thomas, take several body bags.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

His ilk scoffed at the notion that the tens of thousands of Kurd civilians Saddam Hussein killed were justification to invade Iraq. Now, they want us to believe that Libya needs to be invaded, because Q’Daffy is killing armed rebels.

[Billthedrill]

I'll be looking forward to watching the bellicose Mr. Ricks don a pack, pick up a rifle, and head off to do the deed himself. Short of that, a word of circumspection might be in order.

What is the U.S. strategic interest? Is it to shift the possession of oil fields from one group who uses it in their interest to another that uses it in theirs? And count on the gratitude of the latter to...to do what? Sell oil on the world market cheaper? Are they really likely to do that?

Moral outrage is not a casus belli. If it were we'd have a very long list of people to kill. And I have a few suggestions along those lines myself.

[Buckeye McFrog]

if Obama takes his advice it will no doubt end just like Jimmy Carter’s helicopters in the Iranian desert

[robowombat]

Yes. Ricks is a decent writer but he is a bad tempered drunk and I suspect someone off stage owns him in some way so that he can be used as a liberal attack dog who ostensibly identifies with the soldiers and Marines. Not that the post Saddam chaos didn't warrant plenty of criticism but it was focused by Ricks and other on GET BUSH per and simple. Not much today on the continuing tenuousness of Iraq or really what a mess Afghanistan is. Critiques are printed but no OBAMA IS A MURDERER stuff that Bush got hit with all the time.

[Col Freeper]

Dear Thomas,

NO to #1.

NO to #2.

NO to #3.

Thanks for playing.