Yesterday, NATO spokesman Col. Roland Lavoie announced that, “despite the remnants of the regime, the Tripoli region is essentially freed.” While the NATO mission to take out the Gadhafi regime does seem to be largely a success, some critics are pointing out the many problems that arose with the NATO mission in Libya – problems that may be indicative of larger issues within NATO that need to be addressed.
Kurt Volker, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO, wrote in Foreign Policy that there were four big problems with the NATO mission in Libya, and they are problems that will keep popping up.
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