which might explain some of the enthusiasm of the Europeans for this project.

Nobody's going to be sorry he's gone, but it's been fun to see the gyrations liberals have performed to make Saddam's ouster and waterboarding confessed terrorists "war crimes" while a couple of thousand killed by Predator attacks and the elimination of Ghaddafi are great foreign policy victories.

I'm not saying any of these positions are right or wrong, but some consistency would be nice.

On a related note, does anybody still remember how Obama kept telling us he wasn't running the Libya operation, just providing some peripheral support, and this was all those NATO guys? It wasn't really even a military action?

Now suddenly he's the one running around showing everyone the notch on his gun.