From Tuesday night’s Fox News All-Stars.
On Tuesday’s London conference on Libya’s future:
The incoherence and the disingenuous of the talk of the end game here is appalling. Obama himself had said Qaddafi has to go. Then he gives a speech last night in which he says regime change is not a military objective.
Then a day later in London — here’s a dispatch from the New York Times, I’ll contract it a bit — “The leaders of the countries meeting in London today made clear that the NATO-led military operation in Libya would end only with the removal of Qaddafi.,” Which contradicts what the president said last night.
And we aren’t even near the end game. We’re in the middle game here. The rebels aren’t just thwarted at the gates of Sirte. They have been thrown back, lost two towns today, one being Ras Lanuf, the second time they lost [that] oil port in one week. It tells you that the rebels without close air support are no match for Qaddafi.
So to speak of an end game in which Qaddafi is now on the march is absurd. …They’re [the rebel forces] going the wrong way. They’re going east instead of west.