If you're a conservative pundit watching events unfold in the Middle East, there are a couple of things you're expected to do. Of course, you have to say that however the Obama administration is handling things, it's all terribly, awfully wrong. You also have to say that the particular way the administration is wrong is that they aren't being tough and strong enough. Problem is, in a situation like this, there just aren't that many options available to the administration, and the ones that involve blowing things up are obviously stupid and no one in their right mind would even suggest them.
Oh wait -- I'm forgetting Bill Kristol:
I think we should move quickly now to enforce a no-fly zone, not let Qaddafi use what part of his air force is remaining to kill Libyans. Probably enforce a no-tank zone, too, so he can't use tanks and armored personnel carriers to kill people in the streets, and probably recognize the provisional government that Leland mentioned that's set up in Benghazi, which would set up a predicate for a somewhat orderly transition.
A no-tank zone? So Bill Kristol actually thinks it would be a good idea for American planes to be dropping bombs into the streets of Tripoli. What could possibly go wrong?
