BY JOE CONASON Deciding whether to intervene in Libya, the United States and its allies confronted a terrible situation: the immediate imperative – to prevent a promised massacre by the country’s dictator, versus the many long-term reasons to stay away, from the uncertainty of success to the very question of what success would mean. On balance, we could not stand by and allow Moammar Gadhafi to carry out his grotesque threat. But the paradoxes of […]