Libya

The Plan to Pull Out

No, that's not the title of a new Catholic romance novel, its the plan for Libya.

(Reuters) - The United States is planning to gradually remove some of the vessels it has in the Mediterranean now that NATO is taking command over the air strikes in Libya, a U.S. military official said on Monday.

"There is planning out there to do that ... it will be more gradual than sudden," the official said on condition of anonymity.

Wait, weren't we suppose to be stuck in Libya forever just like Iraq? Wasn't this suppose to be the 3rd war? If you've been listening to the collective pants-shitters out there, you may have thought so.

In reality -- the U.S. Navy launched cruise missiles to take out the ground-based air defenses belonging to Gaddafi so the aircraft of other allies could immediately move in, and move in they did. Now the Navy is going to pull back and go about its business while other nations, including Arab nations, endure the burden of enforcing the no-fly-zone.

Meanwhile, Republicans are still on a mission to literally suspend Democracy, so how about a little a focus from those out there on the Professional Left who chose to inflate Libya to heights that it was never going to be taken anyway just to further their own careers.