'Squeeze and See'

I call Obama's Libya strategy the "Gas Stove Gambit." Put Qaddafi over a gas-flame burner and gradually turn up the heat until his goose is cooked, so to speak, and he is forced out. David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and the liberals' favorite conservative, cooked up essentially the same idea (I'm kinda flattered).

Brooks calls his the "Squeez and See" Play. He writes: "Everybody has questions and anxieties about our policy in Libya. My own position is this: I oppose the policy the Obama administration has described in various public statements. I support the policy the administration is actually executing. ... There are three plausible ways he might go, which inside the administration are sometimes known as the Three Ds. They are, in ascending order of likelihood: Defeat — the ragtag rebel army vanquishes his army on the battlefield; Departure — Qaddafi is persuaded to flee the country and move to a villa somewhere; and Defection — the people around Qaddafi decide there is no future hitching their wagon to his, and, as a result, the regime falls apart or is overthrown. The result is a strategy you might call Squeeze and See. The multilateral forces ratchet up the pressure and watch to see what happens."

Hey, I'm for whatever works. Cook him in a pot or squeeze him, let's hope either strategy gets Col. Qaddafi out of power in Libya soon.