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Opinion: Sarah Palin’s four-point plan on Libya

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President Obama may still be dining with the elite at fancy island restaurants on Martha’s Vineyard, but Sarah Palin is pondering the future of Libya and wisely pushing to wind down American involvement in that latest military entanglement.

Palin may not be in the race for her party’s 2012 presidential nomination, but the Republican former governor released her four-point Libya plan late Thursday night to her 3.2 million fans on Facebook. Her first concern is to protect U.S. interests in that troubled land.

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‘The fall of a tyrant and sponsor of terrorism is a great day for freedom-loving people around the world,’ she wrote. But then warned that the path to democracy is incomplete there and ‘we must make wise choices to ensure that our national interests are protected.’

First, Palin said, the Obama White House must avoid celebrating too heartily and recall instead that tribal and sectarian fighting can erupt as it did in previous conflicts, such as in Kosovo, Bosnia and Iraq.

Second, Palin said, ‘history teaches that those with the guns usually prevail when a coalition overthrows a tyrant.’ And she warned the rebel command is an outgrowth of the Islamic Libya Fighting Group, some of whose commanders have links to Al Qaeda.

Third, Palin writes, ‘we should not commit U.S. troops or military assets to serve as peacekeepers or perform humanitarian missions or nation-building in Libya. Our military is already over-committed and strained, and a vaguely designed mission can be the first step toward a quagmire.’

Finally, Palin said terrorist groups are trying to co-opt the Libyan revolution and the United States must use its intelligence assets to thwart that.

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