SASless
"After all...he brilliantly led the Libyan NATO Non-War did he not?"
Lead from behind.
I wouldn't consider it leading as such, more being politically astute. I think France and the UK lead. Still, it achieved a number of goals, that of getting rid of the Colonel without boots on ground and getting NATO to stand up on it's own two feet, both of which the US wanted to achieve.
Now we wait and see whether the Colonel was the lesser of two evils and would the world have been better off with the Devil we know than the devil
we don't ?
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