Mismanagement?

Fantasists such as Juan Cole have now achieved their triumph in Libya, and are probably now ready to turn their guns on other hapless peoples that need to be liberated.

Their premiss for 'humanitarian' intervention is that once the evil dictator has been forced out, the liberated people will be able to live in peace and harmony. What they fail to add is that peace and harmony will require ongoing military action, bombing, torture, targeted assassination, etc.

Then after many years of ongoing destruction, they will announce that the occupation was mismanaged. But they are wrong, they just never understood the process.