  So why did Clinton make such an insane statement? Well, my
guess is the administration realizes they have a problem, having
cherry-picked Gadaffi as the Middle Eastern despot target du
jour. It’s bizarre to characterize the Libyan madman as “low-
hanging fruit,” but that’s what he was, chosen to show the
administration’s street cred as actual anti-totalitarians in the
Islamic world. In reality, the administration is clueless and,
worse than that, valueless.