I’m glad the kinetic military action faux-war in Libya has gone so well. What’s that? Oh. Nevertheless, the war has this to be said for it: very few people seem to care one way or the other what happens in Libya. Granted, a churl could construe this as a good reason to have avoided getting involved in the (latest) Battle for Tripoli in the first place since the lack of interest in the conflict might be considered evidence that few vital interests – for the United States or other NATO powers – are at stake.
Nonetheless, alea iacta est and all that. So this is not a surprising development:
“The United States views the Qaddafi regime as no longer having any legitimate authority in Libya,” Mrs. Clinton said. “And so I am announcing today that, until an interim authority is in place, the United States will recognize the T.N.C. as the legitimate governing authority for Libya, and we will deal with it on that basis.”
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This is worth a sardonic chuckle too:
In a published background briefing, a senior State Department official said that the “NATO operations continue at a very high pace,” with 5,000 air sorties since February, and that “we continue to believe that time is on our side.
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