More Questions on the U.S. Response to Libya

The Obama administration has been recklessly cautious — and has even go so far as to say that the president “doesn’t want to fall into a Libya trap.” But the trap in this case might be to do nothing at all.

“Portugal has now joined France in recognizing the national council in Benghazi as the government of Libya,” Paul Wolfowitz writes. “The Guardian reports that France will now send a French ambassador to Benghazi and receive a Libyan envoy in Paris. Two Libyan National Council representatives, Mahmoud Jibril and Ali Essaoui, have been to Paris and met with President Nicolas Sarkozy.”