"President Obama takes a big risk and scores a win for democracy -- and no one gives a damn."

Credit where credit is due.

 

Foreign Policy  "President Obama pulled off a master stroke this week. He deployed U.S. military force in support of an infant democracy that desperately needs our help. The result was a resounding success, a vivid illustration of how the United States can put its unchallenged power to positive ends.

 

"He did it, once again, by sending in the SEALs, the U.S. Navy's famous special forces. But this time they weren't double-tapping a terrorist. Instead they seized a mysterious tanker that had skipped out of Libya with a shipment of oil that one of the country's rogue militias was trying to sell on the open market. By doing it the SEALs foiled a potentially game-changing challenge to the authority of Libya's hard-pressed government -- one of the very few in the Arab world to have actually been elected by its own country's people." 

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SEALs seize oil tanker from Libyan rebels

The Pentagon said the tanker will return to Libya under control of the destroyer Stout.