Libya

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BENGHAZI, Libya

Young men in fatigues hang around outside the offices of the Transitional National Council, carrying rifles and flashing V (for victory) signs at visitors. Inside, older men in leather jackets sit on sofas drinking tea, while temporary officials cope with clashing appointments and race up and down the hallways. Itas just how one imagines the Smolny Institute, Leninas St. Petersburg headquarters, in 1917: amateur, enthusiastic, disorganized, rumor-filled and slightly paranoid, all at once. In Smolny, though, there were no ringing cellphones to add to the general cacophony.Read full article >>

Finally, the Libyan revolution is ending the way it was supposed to. aA few sharp victories, some conspicuous acts of personal bravery on the Patriot side and a colorful entry into the capital,a as Evelyn Waugh would have put it. That was the Western policy for the war a except that the war went on longer than it was meant to, and it might not be over yet either. On Monday, the rebels reached Green Square and declared victory. On Tuesday, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the regimeas dauphin, was riding around Tripoli in an armored convoy, declaring that reports of his capture were premature and that the rebels had been drawn into a clever trap. On Wednesday, the rebels were inside the Gaddafi family compound. Read full article >>

The president of South Africa has been and gone. The United Nations is wringing its hands. NATO has said it will continue bombing, but Moammar Gaddafi has not announced his resignation. The rebels control Benghazi, but the government controls Tripoli. As of the end of April, the NATO bombardment had destroyed more than a third of Gaddafias military capacity but had not moved the front line at all. Hardly anything has changed since. Read full article >>

For the record, Iad like to clarify one point about my column of last Tuesday:A When I wrote that aThere was no NATO discussion of the operation, no debate, no vote, no joint planning,a of the Libya mission, I meant that there was no political planning. As Ambassador Ivo Daalder rightly pointed out in his letter to the editor today, there was a great deal of military planning. Read full article >>

On a tour of a Tripoli hospital last week, a Libyan government escort showed Western journalists evidence of the acivilian casualtiesa caused by NATO airstrikes. They werenat fooled a and he knew it. aThis is not even human blood!a he cried, disgusted by his own governmentas pathetic propaganda.Read full article >>

The French Socialist Party triumphed in local elections last weekend. The Libyan rebels triumphed in Brega and Ras Lanouf. In France, attention turned to the presidential election of 2012. In Libya, the rebels set their sights on Tripoli. You may not think all of these things are connected. But they are. Read full article >>

I donat know why, exactly, Barack Obama was so hesitant to intervene in Libya or why he has been reluctant even to say much about Libya in public. Maybe, as his critics say, itas because heas indecisive, or instinctively reluctant to deploy American military power. Maybe itas because he thinks two wars are enough, and at a time of massive budget cutbacks we canat afford a third, optional engagement. But it doesnat matter: As French planes and American missiles began to bombard Libya on Saturday, his reluctance and his silence suddenly became his most important tactical assets. Read full article >>

In response to Charles Krauthammer’s blog post, let me quote, once again, the first sentence of his column of March 4: “Voices around the world, from Europe to America to Libya, are calling for U.S. intervention to help bring down Moammar Gaddafi.” And let me repeat: This is a fantasy. No voices anywhere, in any part of the world, are calling for U.S. intervention to bring down Moammar Gaddafi. There is no “strange moral inversion” or “hypocritical double standard” in the international debate about Libya. There is some discussion of aid and of a no-fly zone — but only as a U.N. or NATO action, only as a last resort, only to prevent genocide (Rwanda is being cited as a precedent) and only if it can be done with as little unilateral “American” input as possible. Even though it might save them, at least some Libyans oppose even this: The slogan “No foreign intervention: Libyan people can manage it alone” has its own banner and its own Facebook page. This, not the question of whether we should send in the Marines — and that was a joke, by the way, about the shores of Tripoli — was the first point of my own column.Read full article >>

Iam listening hard, but I just canat hear the avoices around the worlda that my colleague Charles Krauthammer said last week are acalling for U.S. intervention to help bring down Moammar Gaddafi.a Itas true that John Bolton, former U.N. ambassador and present Fox News employee, has declared that astrong American words (and actions) were amply warranteda in Libya. Itas also true that a clutch of American politicians and writers have come out in favor of a similarly muscular response as well. Read full article >>

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Editoras note: This post is from analyst Lahcen Achy with the Carnegie Middle East Center. Neither the Los Angeles Times nor Babylon & Beyond endorses the positions of Carnegie analysts, nor does Carnegie endorse the positions of The Times or…

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