8/30/11

Fighting small wars with a barely detectable footprint

From a Daily Beast Email: "The U.S. military has played a far larger role in Libya than it has acknowledged, spending at least $1 billion and quietly implementing a "covert intervention" strategy that the Obama administration hopes will let America fight small wars with a barely detectable footprint. The Daily Beast's John Barry details America's unadvertised contributions, including a dozen warships, CIA spies in Tripoli, and more than 5,300 air missions."

It is hard to fault this. But it really raises the exceptionalism issue to the fore. A Niebuhrian conundrum.

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