Analyst's note: More and more it seems the decision to become involved in Libya with “kinetic military operation” seems to have been to show to the world that America now operates on a multilateral front with United Nations powers. Such actions continue to undermine American power and aid the jihad.
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"[....] But now that the dust is settling even as the battles continue, it is increasingly clear, based on commentary from Samantha Powers and Ann Marie Slaughter, foreign policy advisers, that the objective was different from those widely considered. The Libyan exercise was a test case for transnational progressivism. It was predicated from the start on multilateral cooperation and building consensus within the United Nations. How else could one explain the president’s consultation with the Security Council rather than the House of Representatives?