More bad news from Libya, from Time’s Global Spin colleague Tony Karon:
The reason there’s a well-worn military euphemism – “collateral damage” – to describe incidents like Sunday morning’s air strike in which NATO admits it may have inadvertently killed Libyan civilians in a residential area of Tripoli is that they’re an inevitable consequence of waging war from the air…But Sunday morning’s debacle — caused, NATO believes, by a “weapons systems failure” that resulted in a bomb or missile missing its target — could not have come at a worse time for the Alliance.
Read it all here.