An intelligence vet knocks down one of Prof. Ajami's myths about the Libyan war


In Sunday's Washington
Post
, Fouad Ajami stated
that, "Even when the rescue mission for the Libyans came, it was late, and the
push was from Paris and London, not Washington."



Au contraire,
responds an intelligence veteran I know. The French and British effectively "brought knives to a gunfight,"
he said, and had to be bailed out by the U.S. government. "The real ammunition came from
the U.S.
"

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