April 7, 2011 10:48AM # George Will on Libya By [David Boaz](https://www.cato.org/people/david-boaz) --- SHARE President Obama’s incomprehensible “kinetic military action” in Libya [has driven George Will to distraction](http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-haze-of-humanitarian-imperialism/2011/04/05/AF5EbPrC_story.html), and to mordant wit: > At about this point in foreign policy misadventures, the usual question is: What is Plan B? Today’s question is: What was Plan A? Not to mention literary allusion: > Perhaps the CIA operatives should have stayed home and talked to some senators who seem to know what’s what. Sen. John Kerry (D‑Mass.) refers to the Libyan rebels as part of a “pro-democracy movement.” Perhaps they are. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R‑S.C.) must think so. Serving, as usual, as Sancho Panza to Sen. John McCain’s Don Quixote, Graham said last Sunday ([on “Face the Nation”](http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/FTN_040311.pdf?tag=cbsnewsTwoColUpperPromoArea)), “We should be taking the fight to Tripoli.” [Read the whole thing](http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-haze-of-humanitarian-imperialism/2011/04/05/AF5EbPrC_story.html). ##### Related Tags [Defense and Foreign Policy](https://www.cato.org/defense-foreign-policy), [Government and Politics](https://www.cato.org/government-politics) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).