Recommended: Thank God For Humanitarian Bombs?

Walter Russel Mead has an interesting, and somewhat unsettling, take on President Obama's Libyan "humanitarian intervention" last year, in his National Interest piece Thank God For Humanitarian Bombs?. It may have seemed reasonable, and moral, at the time, but in hindsight the results have been less than one might have hoped for, and the "unintended consequences" may prove to be profoundly worse.

Once again, it seems to me, American politicians in their profound ignorance of geopolitics, history, and other cultures, have made poor choices. This isn't a Republican vs Democrat thing, nor a liberal vs conservative thing -- this has to do with the insular, somewhat self-righteous, narrow-minded views of our ruling elites.