In late April, a month after the United States lobbied the U.N. Security Council to support a NATO operation shielding anti-Qaddafi rebels in Libya from slaughter, Ryan Lizza published a detailed report in these pages called “The Consequentialist.” Lizza set out to describe the evolution of the President’s foreign-policy thinking and the way it applied to the regional phenomenon known as the Arab
![Libya, Barack Obama, and Leading from Behind : The New Yorker](https://cdn-ak-scissors.b.st-hatena.com/image/square/734b8596e534e6043f87c518429c604e1a342e27/height=288;version=1;width=512/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.newyorker.com%2Fphotos%2F59096857c14b3c606c106cbc%2F16%3A9%2Fw_1280%2Cc_limit%2F110905_talkcmmntillus_g2048.jpg)