Today, Tripoli much resembles Kabul in 1992. The world community must stay committed to helping the Libyans with a peaceful and democratic transition.

While the outcome of NATO's intervention in Libya is still uncertain, the ongoing drift toward a negotiated solution is fraught with potentially debilitating problems for the Western alliance.

The deeper corruption of the U.N. does not consist of acts of individual venality, but of the betrayal of the principles proclaimed in the charter.

President Obama's inaction in the face of Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi's counteroffensive will have lasting consequences.

Any short analysis of Barack Obama's successes and failures in foreign policy must necessarily be incomplete. Is it enough to weigh his undeniable good judgment in ordering Navy SEALS to take out Osama bin Laden against his vacillation when faced with the Arab Spring?

Beforethe United Statesgets too cozy with Libya, we should consider the human-rights reality in the region.

The Kremlin's involvement in Libya is nothing more than hollow swaggering. If the Obama administration is seriously relying on the Kremlin's "good offices" to help secure a favorable outcome, then its lack of strategy in Libya is clearer than ever.

The administration should have called for Assad to be overthrown five months ago or indeed five years ago, but as a practical matter right now, it's unsure whether this will have that much impact. It certainly raises the question--if that's what the president thinks--what is he prepared to do about it, if anything?