[Old Teufel Hunden]

"NATO is the US."

Well, in one sense can't argue with that. However, at this point in time we do not have any planes enforcing the no fly zone as of Sunday night. Whether it is the Admiral or someone else, what I meant was that the Admiral or whoever in their official capacity as NATO will be asking the U.S. at some point (IMO) to fly missions again.

[P-Marlowe]

However, at this point in time we do not have any planes enforcing the no fly zone as of Sunday night.

I honestly do not believe that to be true. Undoubtedly we have AWACs in the air and other support aircraft and if and when a French or British jet happens to be accidentally shot down by the Rebels (like what I believe happened to the the F15 that went down last week) then it will be American Marines that go in and effectuate the rescue.

To say we are "out" of the Libyan conflict would be to deny that we are giving any support to the effort. We are in this thing up to our necks. But Obama is trying to make this a NATO operation so that when it all goes bad, as it is clearly doing, then he can point the finger at NATO for its failures.