Sense of Events: "Hope is not a method, and wishes are not plans."

Plan? What Plan? There is no Plan A, or B, or C.

Donald Sensing says it best.

This was the president's speech in a nutshell: There is no Plan C, no Plan B, and for that matter, there is no Plan A, either. He knows what he wants to happen, but shrinks definitively and certainly away from making it happen. He hopes Qaddafi will play nice and beat feet outta there, and wishes Libya the best in the meantime. Or as Josh Trevino tweeted after the speech,

This is the first time in American history that a President has simultaneously set a war aim and disavowed means to obtain it.

Think the Balkans from 1912-1914, all of Europe in the 1930's, Lyndon Johnson and his Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, our successful efforts to arm the Taliban in the 1980's.

Hope is not a method, and wishes are not plans.