Posted on 03/25/2011 11:14:05 AM PDT by jazusamo
In Homer's Odyssey, protagonist Odysseus spends 10 years trying to reach Ithaca, encountering sirens and a cyclops along the way.
In President Obama's "odyssey," the U.S. military gets involved in a limited engagement against the "mad dog" of the Middle East -- only one that's supposed to settle down in a matter of days.
As the U.S. military now concedes, perhaps "Operation Odyssey Dawn" wasn't the best name for this supposedly in-and-out mission.
"We probably should have chosen something else, because people have read into that -- some type of long, enduring voyage," Eric Elliott, spokesman for U.S. Africa Command, told FoxNews.com.
It's anything but, the administration insists. With NATO taking partial control, U.S. officials claim the United States will soon be flying shotgun despite myriad concerns about Muammar al-Qaddafi's staying power and the extent to which America would use force to unseat him.
But with a name like "odyssey," it's hard to make that case.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
“Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, a senior fellow with the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, said “Odyssey Dawn” doesn’t send the right signal for a mission already under criticism for potentially being open-ended.
“It kind of denotes almost a wandering around the landscape,” he said.”
It short, it was PERFECTLY named!
could have called it operation lunar tick!
You make a good point.
This is Oddysseus' Dawn. NATO may likely experience sunset in the sands of Libya. Canadian General commanding French Pilots and Italian mechanics, sounds like a joke already.
The mind boggles...
Well, the alternative suggestion was “Operation Eternal Quagmire”
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