Benny Avni, writing in today’s New York Post, does a good impression of someone who has not learned the lessons of the war in Iraq and the dangers of a declaring victory before we know all the facts:

O’s ‘just right’ interventionism
After nearly three years of American indecision and failure, Libya is helping an Obama Doctrine to emerge. Call it the Goldilocks foreign policy — not too hot, not too cold.
Why? Success. Just in time for President Obama’s re-election campaign, he can claim an important scalp. Dead or alive, Moammar Khadafy becomes a notch on Obama’s belt right next to Osama bin Laden.
In Libya, as Obama’s fans will tell anyone who’ll listen, we got it just right: Tyranny ended without too much US involvement, but enough.
So, as we move now to the next stage, it’s much harder to claim those Libyan rebels are puppets of Western imperialism, a tool in capitalism’s lust for oil — or any of the tropes that usually “taint” America’s allies.
This, with little American treasure spent, and no American blood spilled.

Avni ends with:

We’ll see whether Obama’s “shared leadership” policy can continue to work. For now, though, Libyans celebrate their victory and America can, quietly rejoice. We did good and emerged unscarred.
Who knows, if “leadership from behind” claims a few more scalps, Obama may even decide that real American leadership ain’t all that bad after all.

Do you know what Libya looks a lot like right now? Iraq on the day President Bush gave the “Mission Accomplished” speech. I hope that I’m wrong and that Libya finds a way to come together, but if tribal violence kills tens of thousands of Libyans in the next year or so, will the media still cheer Obama’s “just right” interventionism?