To the shores of Tripoli -- again!

Michael Hirsh: Time to rule in a ground option in Libya? Yep:

The question is whether Obama will squarely confront that danger—and the possibility that his and NATO’s credibility are once again at stake. At bottom, Obama is strapped by a latter-day iteration of what the late Richard Holbrooke once described to me as “Vietmalia” syndrome—a wariness of suffering U.S. casualties in out-of-the-way places like Vietnam and Somalia, where both the national interest and the exit strategy were unclear.

Shouldn’t these questions have been raised before we started bombing?