So, basically, defecit spending is OK with the GOP and Tea Party as long as it is spent blowing other people up?
what makes you think members of the tea party are not against it?
I have seen members of all walks of life against it...of all parties...of all ideologies.
I am sure there are some tea partyers that are for it as well....so are some democrats and so are some republicans.
Why are the tea partyers held to a standard of "all is either black or white"?
Me?
I was all for the no fly zone.....But I am not interested in our broke country spending all kinds of money tossing in tomohawks at 500K apiece.
But realistically, Libya is a military midget. Much much weaker then Iraq was in 2003. And Iraq had a decade of sanctions behind them.
Libya has a big land-mass, but most of it is desert and Libya is actually just a small strip along the Med-Sea which is inhabited. It's 6 million people are located in some population centers along that coast.
From a military standpoint, you can't really compare the Libyan situation with Iraq.
NATO has limited the operations to 90 days and there is no chance, that NATO will alter the situation on the ground when it comes to Libyan rebels against Libyan Army.
The Libyan Army's anti-aircraft installations have already been destroyed and I don't think, that there will be more bombings like we've witnessed when the operation started.
"Shock&Awe" was meant to invade the country and destroy the Iraqi Army. Infrastructure was bombed, so that the Iraqi Army can't move around the country.
NATO won't bomb the Libyan Army, and as long as this approach continues, the costs will be small.