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Peace through strength--plus a few well-aimed bombing runs and more than a decade of diplomatic isolation--and Libyan strongman Muammar Gadaffi (your spelling may vary) is giving up his WMD programs.

Just like that. Well, if you take "just like that" to mean that Libya gets to rejoin the family of nations after owning up to having been a terrorist haven in the not too distant past, coupled with payment to its victims, and now to complete dismantling of its WMDs and limiting the range of its missiles. Just like that.

For Gadaffi, it's smiles all around. He gets a pat on the back from America's stalwart ally Tony Blair. He could get some sort of normalization from us, though we should make sure to squeeze him for any terrorist intel he still has first. And he gets to retire to his bodyguard of Amazon beauties, secure in the knowledge that he has given the Americans no reason to send in the Air Force (again).

MORE: A detail I failed to mention in this post--negotiations to end Libya's WMD programs began nine months ago. Nine months...what might have influenced Mr. Gadaffi to come clean nine months ago, about his WMD programs? I wonder...

It couldn't be...the invasion of Iraq...to disarm neighbor Saddam Hussein of his WMDs, could it? That invasion began nine months ago today.

Perhaps we can get Rep. McDermott on the line. I'm sure he'll see it as more than coincidental, given his tendency to spot patterns in everything else.

Do you suppose Howard Dean will come forward with an "interesting theory" to explain Gadaffi's turn? Does candle-powered Howard think America is safer now?

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Posted by B. Preston on December 19, 2003 5:55 PM
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I’d love to hear somebody ask Chucklehead Dean a medical question, like this:

“Let’s say a patient comes to you with a staph infection that has been festering for twenty years. You give him an antibiotic, and one week later his infection is cured. Would you consider this to be a miracle or coincidence, or would you assume that your efforts had made the patient safer?”

Posted by ockham on December 19, 2003 6:14 PM

Mr. Preston;

I too would like to see Gadaffi get what he deserves, but sometimes higher justice demands sacrifices. If Gadaffi verifiably gives up WMD programs, then we should be nice to him in exchange.

Posted by Annoying Old Guy on December 19, 2003 8:23 PM

Indeed. Gadaffi has earned the benefit of the doubt. The hard way, obviously, but he has earned it.

Posted by Bryan on December 19, 2003 8:43 PM

Bet the French are all kinds of happy about this. A nice slap at their love affair with internationalization.

Be interesting if Libya now became an ally. Personally, I don’t trust them as far as I can throw an Abrams, but . . .

Posted by Tom on December 19, 2003 11:58 PM

We made nice to some unsavory fellows in the past, only to have to step up to the plate and deal with them later. Are you sure it is wise to make nice with Qaddafi? I remember when I was a pre-teen, right as Reagan was assuming office, all scary rumors that circulated on the school playground that this horrible fellow named Qaddafi was the anti-Christ. I have worse memories of Qaddafi as the bogeyman than I ever had of Saddam. What can these new developments mean?

Posted by Jimmy Huck on December 22, 2003 12:18 AM