The war in Libya has cost the Pentagon $550 million so far. And as of Monday, the U.S. had launched 192 long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles at a cost of $1 to $1.5 million each. Although I advocate nonintervention, wouldn’t it have been cheaper and easier to bribe a Libyan to take out his leader with a single bullet? Update: or as a reader suggested, “just give Qaddafi the $550 million to go into exile somewhere.” It would cost the same, but no one on either side would have to die.