President Obama's Libya War Challenges

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President Obama's Libya War Challenges,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
The Libya war is going just swimmingly, militarily. Unfortunately, it's more of a political war than a military one. If military might were the sole arbiter of the outcome,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], any alliance led by the U.S. would triumph. No one comes close to matching our military strength. But as we have learned after a decade in Afghanistan, firepower is rarely a key to victory.
U.S. military leaders from Defense Secretary Robert Gates ("I think we've made good progress") to Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ("The initial operations have been very effective") to the Army general in charge of the campaign, Carter Ham ("Our actions, to date, are generally achieving the intended objective"),[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], are unanimous in their declaration of so far,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so good.
So it's up to Obama to draw to an inside straight (or insert your favorite gambling metaphor here). All wars are rolls of the dice,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], to be sure,.Anti-aircraft fire, explosions echo in Tripoli, but sometimes you get a better hand than what Obama self-dealt. Because even if the U.S. military and its window-dressing allies (132 cruise missiles have been fired into Libya; the U.S. now leads Britain, 124 to 8, in that category) do everything right,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the outcome is beyond their control.