Robert Kaplan Continues to Flog His Tribal Ruler Meme With Gaddafi, Gbagbo and Saleh
Robert Kaplan thinks that Gaddafi, Gbagbo, and Saleh refuse to back down out of fealty to their tribes.
Confronting the Urge to Urge on the Libyan Intervention
Libya begs the question of how something as benign sounding as humanitarian intervention got such a bad rap.
Surprise War for Regime Change in Libya is the Wrong Path
The Obama administration is selling the U.S. public a pig in a poke with its military intervention in Libya.
Armchair Anti-Imperialism and Libya
The choice in Libya is clear: to support the popular uprising and not the unpopular tyrant.
Response to Juan Cole On Libya
With the military intervention underway, our job now is to make sure it does not escalate into full-scale invasion, and to try to end it as soon as possible. And then to work as hard as we can to support the efforts to consolidate and expand the extraordinary accomplishments of the uprisings of the 2011 Arab Spring, in Libya and the rest of the region.
Juan Cole Challenges the Left “to Chew Gum and Walk at the Same Time”
Should progressives drop their reflexive opposition to use of force overseas that’s not in the service of national defense?
Gaddafi’s Genocidal Buzzwords No Doubt Sent up Red Flag to Samantha Power
Samantha Power is uniquely equipped to interpret the words of Gaddafi and his followers.