How to End the War in Libya.
By Elbridge Colby
Itâ??s hard to believe but the United States is at war with yet another opprobrious Middle Eastern country â?? and, perhaps even more amazingly, is doing so without the clear sense of our objectives that can provide a logic for what we need to do and, more importantly, what we donâ??t need to do. Of course, finding such a coherent strategy wonâ??t be easy, as the attack on Libya, lacking a concrete connection to the advancement or protection of substantial American interests, was ill-advised, as Brent Scowcroft, Richard Lugar, Richard Haass, Joe Scarborough and others have rightly pointed out. (For an unwittingly eye-opening admission of this, see Ben Rhodesâ?? explanation here.) But here we are, and we must make the best of it, as Scowcroft recently conceded.
So where do we go from here?
