<blockquote>For the past two years, Libya has meant just one thing in Washington: a polemic about the attack on a U.S. diplomatic installation in Benghazi and the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens. This argument has essentially nothing to say about the political collapse and growing chaos in Libya, which tells you something unwelcome but true about the state of American politics. It’s not a climate conducive to long-term, intelligent policymaking. Now Tripoli, the Libyan capital, may be about to fall to an Islamist militia, and it would be hard to say that there is any American policy to address that.</blockquote>
via <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/james-foleys-truth">James Foley’s Truth - The New Yorker</a>.