They told me that If I didn't vote for 0bama in 2008, there was going to be another war in the Middle East. I guess they were right.

Goofy Khadaffi never answered for the Pan Am downing. He paid some blood money to the victims' families but he never really paid.

This is the long-term effect:

1. It does not pay to give up your Nuke Program - the U.S. will still bomb you. What was suppose to be this Administration's biggest concern: Nuke Profileration - just became more likely;

2. The new rulers in Libya will also be dictators, but anti-American and aligned with Iran and doing their bidding;

3. France and England obviously talked us into going to this restaurant; but guess who's going to pickup the check?

4. This will cause much more death and misery; full civil war followed by something similar to the French Revolution.

I disagree with some of the comments here. Quadaffi's had this coming and for quite some time. It's true we cut a deal to trade chopping his WMD program for better relations, although what the UK did with the Lockerbee bomber was much worse. Nonetheless circumstances change and Quadaffi didn't live up to his end of the deals.

In any case, unlike Egypt or even Yemen there's no recourse for the Libyan opposition as Quadaffi was bringing in outside forces to wipe them out wholesale. Without providing these rebels (many of which are from the army itself) some sort of outside support we'll miss the biggest opportunity we've ever had to nail this (insert expletive here). It's worth a little trouble to support this and I suggest not looking at the Iraq or Afghan "template" too much. Airpower and Special Forces should suffice here.

Oh, and Congress needs to rip Obama a big one for not consulting them on it. Just because it's the right thing to do doesn't mean you get to bypass Congress on it.

The Law of Unintended Consequences has a corollary: The Rule of Unintended Lessons. That is, whatever you do, some observer will draw the completely wrong lesson from it about why you did it and what you are likely to do in future.

When April Glaspie says to Saddam that the US isn't interested in getting involved in a dispute between Iraq and Kuwait, Saddam learns that the US won't interfere with his military invasion and annexation of Kuwait. When the Clinton Administration gives a weak response to the WTC bombing, Bin Laden learns that he can conduct a mass casualty attack on the US with relative impunity.

So, what are the Iranians learning from our Libyan intervention?

The Green Revolution movement learns that when the situation becomes dire for those fighting an oppressive dictator in a Muslim country, the West inevitably stirs itself to military intervention to save the rebels.

The Iranian theocracy learns that they only have about three weeks to kill all the protesters before risking outside intervention, and that they have to ensure they do a complete job of it so that there's nobody alive for the West to protect.

Both are wrong.