John Bolton, my old friend, insists that the U.S. cannot stand idly by and watch Libya fall into the wrong (that is, the same) hands. Establishing a no-fly zone and/or a no-drive-zone? Well, we can’t “do nothing,” can we? But he lets slip a fascinating insight into the pro-war mentality: “Of course, there is no guarantee that a successor regime to Gadhafi would not also support terrorism, but given a choice between Gadhafi and uncertainty, uncertainty is more likely to be the safer choice.” As diplomatic historian Charles Burton Marshall once said, “there is no such thing as the foreseeable … Continue reading Johnnie Get Your Gun