By JULIAN E. BARNES WASHINGTON—The U.S. military doesn’t want to send troops into Libya, even for humanitarian duties, until Col. Moammar Gadhafi has left power, a senior defense official said Friday. The admission provided a sign of the Pentagon’s skittishness about taking overt military action against the government. “It is so problematic to put boots on the ground,” the senior defense official said. “The risk I worry about is because there is no alternative to the government, we would be stuck. And we’ve seen that movie before.” View Full Image Reuters A Libyan army soldier holds Gadhafi’s image near a destroyed mosque at Martyr’s Square in Zawiyah, 30 miles west of the capital…
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