The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him.
As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.