Libya's lame duck parliament, which governs nothing beyond the oil industry, today approved another cabinet for Prime Minister Ali Zidan.
A year after the murder of Gaddafi, American media have more or less forgotten about Libya, with the exception of the "Benghazi incident," the murder of the American ambassador in September, and that only because the right end of the political spectrum is using it as a pathetic cudgel with which to smear Obama. See for example Paul Wolfowitz's opportunistic slag of Obama at the American Enterprise Institute site today.
To read reasoned reportage about the state of affairs in Libya it's necessary to read foreign sites. This opinion piece from The Hindu for example provides more context for the death of Ambassador Stevens than anything yet published in America.
Meanwhile, the oil keeps flowing, the oil money keeps disappearing, a tiny handful of kleptocrats allied with the oil industry keep getting richer, and the average Libyan is left stunned and bewildered by the chaos that now reigns in his country.
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