Rule #2 why you don’t get involved in a civil war: It’s almost impossible to tell friend from foe.
Rule #1: There often isn’t any real difference between friend and foe.
That’s the ironic thing. American airmen being heroes in Benghazi. I suspect Al Qaeda has a 90 percent approval rate in this region.
The whole thing is quite bizarre.
To quote Michael J. Totten:
“We should all resist trying to predict what will happen next in the Middle East because so much of what happens makes no sense at all in advance of it actually happening.
Who would have thought two months ago that France would lead a Western military coalition, that the United Nations would pass a Chapter VII resolution authorizing the use of force against a country that was elected to its own Human Rights Commission, that Barack Obama would fire missiles at an Arab country when less than thirty percent of Americans approve, and that Qaddafi loyalists would burn Lebanese rather than American or Israeli flags in the capital?
No one could have predicted any of this. It’s too weird. Don’t ask me what happens next. I give up.”
Cheers.