Nato’s governing body, the North Atlantic Council (NAC), is meeting today in Brussels to decide how deeply it is willing to be drawn into the Libyan conflict. Washington is very keen to hand over this chalice in time for Hillary Clinton and Bob Gates to go on the Sunday morning talk shows and tell the nation that Libya is not longer America’s problem. US officials here in Brussels have therefore been briefing that the result of today’s NAC is entirely cut and dried: Nato will take over the whole campaign, including the arms embargo, no-fly zone and air strikes. The problem now is the details, but those details could determine the course of the conflict. Nato is now enforcing the arms embargo…
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