From the FINANCIAL TIMES:
Joe Biden, US vice-president, has declared Nato can fulfil its mission in Libya without US help, arguing that Washington has far more important strategic concerns elsewhere, particularly Egypt.
Speaking to the Financial Times after US allies tried to persuade Washington to help more with the conflict, Mr Biden suggested the problem was not with other Nato countries’ capabilities, but with their political will.
“If the Lord Almighty extricated the US out of Nato and dropped it on the planet of Mars so we were no longer participating, it is bizarre to suggest that Nato and the rest of the world lacks the capacity to deal with Libya – it does not,” he said. “Occasionally other countries lack the will, but this is not about capacity.”
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