USA Today: Our view: U.S. moves deftly on Libya, but how will it end?

[dennis4868]

Perhaps the sustained military assault underway in Libya will bring a swift end to Moammar Gadhafi's brutal 42-year reign. Perhaps he'll even leave peacefully. Any reasonable man facing such formidable opposition would cut the best deal he could and run.

Perhaps the fragmented Libyan opposition will overcome its historic rivalries, defeat a crippled Libyan military, cobble together a cohesive government and avoid collapse into a failed state. Perhaps radical Islamists will be isolated and controlled.

Perhaps all this will be achieved by bombing alone, as the United States and its European and Arab allies so fervently hope.

If all this happens, as it might, the intervention that began Saturday will go down as an extraordinary success. It has already averted an imminent slaughter of innocents. Extended success could bind the U.S. closer to the democratic forces in the region and help change America's image as a self-interested backer of despots despised in the Arab street.

The entire editorial is here....http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2011-03-21-editorial21_ST_N.htm#

[NorthCarolina]

1. How will it end? Easy, we'll be more broke than we already are. The more apt question is

WHEN will it end.

[hulka38]

2. What did they say about the Iraq invasion of 2003?