With what seems to be the end of the era of Gaddafi's reign, we should take a moment and remember the good times, rather than focus on all the bad, l...
With what seems to be the end of the era of Gaddafi's reign, we should take a moment and remember the good times, rather than focus on all the bad, l...
Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year dictatorship is hanging by a thread, most of his family is either under arrest or in exile, and rebels are celebrating their impending victory. It's like Iraq in March 2003. But things in Iraq changed quickly.
Barack Obama's gamble in providing limited support for a conflict in Libya, in which other countries played lead roles, now seems like a winning move.
The rebels are on the move in Libya. Unfortunately, getting answers to the question "where exactly are they moving?" from the American media is not that easy.
News sources indicate that France has agreed to let Qaddafi remain in Libya if he cedes power. Qaddafi's acquiescence notwithstanding, this is the best decision made by the Western powers so far in the Libyan conflict.
A military push toward Tripoli should be promoted and not discouraged. If Nato wants to avoid instability and bloody retribution then it should instead aim to swiftly end the Gaddafi regime and focus efforts on the post-Gaddafi transitional period, with a particular emphasis on representation.
All this talk of dithering and deference would be interesting if it didn't confuse realism with isolationism while also misidentifying the point at which Obama's foreign policy began to tack away from its early "realist" positions.
As people in the West continue to hear the stories of ordinary citizens in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Syria and Yemen, they are realizing more and more that human desires, needs and wants or all people are one and the same.
Mohammed El Senussi is the opposite of Muammar Gaddafi: he's soft-spoken, nuanced, dresses in business suits and is also Gaddafi's main rival.
Here in Tunisia, credited with the rebirth of Arab Nationalism because of its Jasmine Revolt that shook the Arab World, there is deep concern for Libya's welfare.
As a Libyan and Muslim woman, my voice is often drowned out. But the revolutions of the Arab Spring thrust women into the public sphere and supported their voices with megaphones.
For many decades, journalists have died, been imprisoned or murdered in pursuit of their stories. Do they fly in the face of danger and pay the price for their recklessness, or for their passion?
The bravery of the protestors may not be enough when coming up against the limits the regime is willing to go to in ensuring its continued rule.
Our energy challenges are shared among nations, and their resolution requires both domestic action and international cooperation. A concerted global effort to end the secrecy that often surrounds energy development is a good place to start.
Opponents of the regime in Tripoli are suffering systematic abuse across the country. Benghazi seems destined to be cast as Sarajevo in this recasting of the Bosnian tragic drama.
A Libya with nuclear weapons would have presented an entirely different and dangerous challenge to the current coalition. Most likely it would have blocked it.
Foreign policy must be about priorities. The United States cannot do everything everywhere. This consideration argued for avoiding military intervention in Libya; now it argues for limiting the current intervention drastically.
Before any state resorts to the use of force, it needs to answer a series of pragmatic and ethical questions. In the case of Libya, these have been posed and answered on humanitarian grounds.
Despite what the critics say, America is not the land of the inconsistent and the home of the hypocrites. In today's world, the best policy is sometimes not to have a policy.
As the Obama administration works to explain the goals of the intervention in Libya, something else is making Americans uneasy: the perceived role of religion in the Middle East's uprising.