GAFFNEY: The Gadhafi precedent
Could attack on Libya set the stage for action against Israel?
NO-FLY ZONE: An F-16 jet fighter flies over the NATO airbase in Aviano, Italy, on Sunday. President Obama said he had no choice but to authorize military strikes to help enforce the U.N.-authorized no-fly zone. (Associated Press)@-Text.rag.dropcap:There are many reasons to be worried about the bridge-leap the Obama administration has just undertaken in its war with Col. Moammar Gadhafi. How it will all end is just one of them.
@-Text.rag:Particularly concerning is the prospect that what we might call the Gadhafi precedent will be used in the not-too-distant future to justify and threaten the use of U.S. military forces against an American ally: Israel.
Here’s how such a seemingly impossible scenario might eventuate:
