this is the very definition of a knee-jerk reaction. What does our Libyan policy havein common with a knee-jerk?
- it’s autonomic: without conscious thought or reasoning
- it’s an uncontrolled spasm
- it could trigger an uncontrolled, uncontrollable series of equally uncomcious responses
- it’s unconnected to a strategy, a plan, a vision of the future
- it’s a response to outside unplanned stimuli
- it’s entirely predictable
- it will happen again in the same way if there is no change to the central nervous system