“Perhaps you consider a skeptical pacifism childish; I say to you the moral life of children is superior in every way to a perpetual adolescence. Endorsing violence except at the uttermost end of need is monstrous; cheering it, even then, is evil.” (Updated)
“It is notable that the loudest cheerleaders of this war do not actually desire anything remotely resembling a revolution. ‘As much as possible of the current bureaucracy, police and army should be retained,’ says Juan Cole, which unintentionally illustrates the truth: that this was not a revolution, not from the Euro-American perspective; it was a hit. If Qaddafi were quite the Hitler he’s now supposed to be, or to have been, or whatever, then it would hardly do to keep his party apparatus in place.”
So says IOZ.