Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Obama's Quiet Victory in Libya

David Remnick, The New Yorker
In late April, a month after the United States lobbied the U.N. Security Council to support a NATO operation shielding anti-Qaddafi rebels in Libya from slaughter, Ryan Lizza published a detailed report in these pages called “The Consequentialist.” Lizza set out to describe the evolution of the President’s foreign-policy thinking and the way it applied to the regional phenomenon known as the Arab Spring. Political actors and think-tank grandees struggled to situate Obama somewhere on the idealist-realist scale, and White House aides hastened to define his...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/08/30/obama039s_quiet_victory_in_libya_262537.html

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