The CIA is on the ground. In Libya. We hope?

So the CIA is on the ground in Libya. I can only wonder if this is a good thing...

Seriously, we have a major Libyan defector, British Intelligence and the CIA all in the news. People are wondering if it's a good idea to arm the rebels (why wouldn't it be?), and the right is going bananas over the fact that we're not only helping the rebels, we're arming them as well.

I'm not sure where the right gets it moral standing from; they believe in freedom, right [sic...]? But Col. Gaddafi at least ensured stability. Unlike, say, Saddam Hussein. Or George Bush. Oh, how did that name get in there? You know the problem with the right? They're mad because Mr Obama is doing what they would do, but more intelligently. They'd do it like Afghanistan or Iraq - dash in, both guns blazing and then ask "Who's the enemy and where are they?" Or try to provide the rebels with promises of arms, but being cheapskates and generally incompetent, they'd deliver the weapon (a gun, perhaps, or an antique anti-aircraft missile, or a bow and one arrow) to Gaddafi's forces. Let me see: where were those weapons of mass destruction, again? Oh, that's right. Nowhere, because they didn't actually exist.

Oh well. I'm sure the next few days will bring new hysteria to the American right. They seem to look forward to being hysterical.

Carolyn Ann