The ousting of Qaddafi in a nutshell

Count your blessings that the Commentariat was not running American foreign policy regarding Libya (or anything else requiring "good hands"). That took a smarter, steadier, more patient hand on the tiller. In other words, Obama's hand. David Ignatius puts the events of the last six months (a blink of history's eye) in a nutshell: "One key factor in Libya was that in August the United States doubled the number of Predator drones operating there, adding persistent surveillance and firepower over Tripoli. Another was training and mentoring the rebels with Special Forces from Britain, France, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. A third was that the rebel leadership, initially a hodgepodge when the Transitional National Council was created, grew stronger and more confident as the war progressed." You're obliged to turn off the "daily squawk box," as Ignatius says, to hear victory's music. But its deft orchestration by Mr. Obama is why Mr. Qaddafi is now an unemployed despot on the run.