There are many practical reasons why the U.S. military attack on Libya is a bad idea—including that Libya has nothing to do with American vital interests, that helping an unknown opposition is fraught with risks of getting something worse than Moammar Gadhafi, and that the United States was overstretched militarily (already conducting two other wars) and financially (suffering from huge budget deficits and national debt)—but the interventionists have claimed that bombing Gadhafi will save Libyans’ lives. Continue reading →
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Libyan intervention fraught with risks
Posted on April 11, 2011 by Ivan Eland
There are many practical reasons why the U.S. military attack on Libya is a bad idea—including that Libya has nothing to do with American vital interests, that helping an unknown opposition is fraught with risks of getting something worse than Moammar Gadhafi, and that the United States was overstretched militarily (already conducting two other wars) and financially (suffering from huge budget deficits and national debt)—but the interventionists have claimed that bombing Gadhafi will save Libyans’ lives. Continue reading →