Libya News: Barack Obama and The Libyan Transition

Protesters in Tripoli, Libya./AP Photo
Protesters in Tripoli, Libya./AP Photo

With yet another Arab nation on the edge of deposing its leader, U.S. and European leaders are greeting the pending regime change in Libya having a mixture of triumph and trepidation. The Obama administration and its particular allies certainly will cast the rebels’ quick and decisive advance into Tripoli over the weekend as a vindication in their protracted intervention in a de facto civil war. Merely last month, some lawmakers in Congress were attempting to pull funding for the mission.