11:21AM
Time's Battleland: Defining the floor and ceiling of US interventions post-Bush
Monday, August 29, 2011 at 11:21AM 
Qaddafi's handiwork
NOTE: No World Politics Review column this week as journal shuts down for its summer break.
Nice NYT analytic piece (already cited by Mark Thompson) by Helene Cooper and Steven Lee Myers regarding the downstream legacy of the US involvement in Libya to date. Starts off by saying the Obama White House seeks no doctrine definition because it fears being pulled into inappropriate situations, but, of course, that's what a doctrine is supposed to do - delineate those cases. Bad doctrines tend to be too vague and open-ended (George W. Bush's WRT terror), while better ones tend to be fairly specific (Jimmy Carter's WRT the Persian Gulf).
Read the entire post at Time's Battleland.
Reader Comments (3)
Dr. Barnett I really enjoy your blog, and I'm glad you are getting more exposure via the Time's Battleland.
That said, the comments you get on the other website are ridiculous. Obama in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamic groups so he can cause America nothing but death and destruction? Where do these people get this information?
So much stupidity and misinformation in this world today. A potentially dangerous scenario. How does one counteract such a movement?
It is disturbing, to say the least. But that's what an unmoderated site gets you. Reasonable people don't comment enough, and the angry nutcases grab the microphone all the time, so eager to blame the entire world on American conspiracies and the like.
The temptation is to do battle with ignorance in all forms, but it gets exhausting very quickly. And there's no way to support your family doing that.
I came to conclusion that unmoderated internet forums are modern equivalent of public restroom walls.
TPMB website is rare exclusion.