Obama caught up on the situation in Libya during a secure conference call with Chief of Staff Bill Daley, left , and National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, right, in Rio de Janeiro on March 20. Pete Souza/The White HouseObama On Libya: The Dawn Of A Foreign Policy Doctrine? -- Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor
Libya may have been less a precedent than a case study in the president's blend of pragmatism and idealism.
When President Obama gathered his national security team in the White House situation room on March 15, the question on the table was Libya – to intervene, or not to intervene.
The debate was furious between the proponents and the skeptics of the United States undertaking a military operation – simply put, a war – in yet another Muslim country.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
After the Uprising: Can protesters find a path between dictatorship and anarchy? -- Dexter Filkins, New Yorker
A Decade of Wishful Thinking: Western policymakers and pundits tried for years to convince themselves that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was a reformer. He's not. -- Foreign Policy
The Striking Arab Openness to Intervention -- Shibley Telhami, National Interest
O's Mideast retreat: Will US leave behind disaster? -- Arthur Herman, New York Post
Time runs out in Iraq -- Washington Post editorial
Iraq remains in state of paralysis -- Mohammad Akef Jamal, Gulf News
Proxy war in the Middle East -- Ömer Taspinar, Today's Zaman
China’s Military Self-Assurance -- Rukmani Gupta, The Diplomat
China's sympathetic response to Japan's crisis eases tensions -- Peter Ford, Christian Science Monitor
Ivory Coast: Massacre in the West, Siege in the East -- Elizabeth Dickinson, Foreign Policy
An Epidemic of Rape for Haiti’s Displaced -- New York Times editorial
Who really killed Europe? -- Niall Ferguson, Newsweek
Northern Ireland: Not the end of history yet -- Guardian editorial
How will Anglo-American relations fare when America is no longer majority white? -- Ed West, The Telegraph
Top 5 reasons we keep fighting all these wars -- Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy
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