Senator McCain has no Plan B for Libya.
In McCain's view, a modest increase in moral and material support to the rebels, plus more aggressive application of American air power â?? including the use of unmanned drones â?? would cause the regime to crumble. "I don't think it would be a lengthy campaign. In this kind of warfare, momentum shifts one way or the other." But what if it doesn't? What if, even after we make the Libyan war a fair fight, Gaddafi remains in power? That remains the insoluble Western dilemma, and even McCain is unable to offer a way out. - Romesh Ratnesar, Time
In other words, Senator McCain is basing his policies on best-case assumptions of what will happen, without giving any thought to what happens if they don't come to pass. All the more remarkable is that this kind of blithe disregard for what happens if Plan A doesn't quite pan out is happening in 2011, with the supposed benefit of seeing a similar approach fail disastrously in Iraq.
