Pulling Libya Back from the Brink of Civil War

While Congress continues to spar over a pointless re-investigation of the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, in the real world of Libya events have taken another turn for the worse. A retired Libyan general who spent years of exile in Northern Virginia has launched a campaign against the Islamist militias that control parts of Benghazi and Tripoli as well as against the national parliament. The result is that Libya is sliding from political chaos toward a full-blown civil war.