I predict you are looking at an enormous multiyear effort to help this country essentially become a functioning country.
I don't think we can have a one-size-fits-all policy here.
The only way I know to ensure the replacement of the current Libyan regime with something demonstrably better would be through the introduct...
The opposition should also be encouraged to make commitments now about the future governance of Libya's sovereign wealth fund.
Now, imagine--I just want people to imagine the hue and cry, had we done nothing, in the face of all of those pleas.
I do believe we have strategic interests in the outcome in Libya.
I did not support the decision to intervene with military force in Libya, but, as the saying goes, 'We are where we are.'
The only way to ensure the replacement of the current Libyan regime with something demonstrably better would be through the introduction of ...
I think one thing we have seen in this whole drama over the last few months is that events in one country in the Middle East affect events i...
that would be an al-Qaeda recruiter's dream and something that we had a national interest in avoiding
This all argues for reducing the immediate aims of American foreign policy and giving priority to humanitarian as opposed to political goals...
We cannot be confident of the agenda of the opposition toward either the Libyan people or various United States interests, including counter...
There is little reason to conclude that the Libyan opposition will any time soon be able to defeat the Libyan Government.
It should be insisted on and absolutely guaranteed.
But, just because we can't help everybody, everywhere, doesn't mean that, for the sake of consistency, we should help nobody, nowhere.
We must recognize that we face an all-too-familiar foreign policy conundrum: There is a large gap between the professed goals of the United ...
They need help in setting up a justice system, courts, police, all of the elements of a functioning state.
But, before we intervene, we have to be sure humanitarian catastrophes on a scale beyond what one would normally expect to come from fightin...
