President Obama's recently co-written oped, done with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron, asserted Transatlantic concerns about affairs in Libya -- and intentionally or not, proclaimed ownership of the conflict. Whether the Libya intervention succeeds or fails, the achievement will be because of the efficacy or impotence of the West more than a narrative of a well-organized, inspiring Opposition throwing off an unjust regime.
This is not good. The US now has adopted a third nation -- after Iraq and Afghanistan -- in which the footprint of its military involvement is very large, and while there has been good diplomatic outreach to members of the African Union and Arab League, they are now invisible in this conflict in their own neighborhood.
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