Obama Seeks to Unify Allies as More Airstrikes Rock Tripoli

Mr. Obama reiterated that the United States would step back from the leading role within days, but he also said it was confronting the complexities of running the military campaign with a multilateral force cobbled together quickly and without a clear understanding among its members about their roles.
The president expressed confidence that the coalition would resolve disagreements over the role of NATO, which had flared in recent days over France’s insistence that the alliance not play a leading role in the operation. NATO now seems likely to provide “command and control” functions, but with a separate authority running the operation, which includes Arab and other non-NATO countries.
“I would expect that over the next several days you will have clarity and a meeting of the minds of all those who are participating in the process,” Mr. Obama said in a news conference in El Salvador, where he was nearing the end of a Latin American trip that has been eclipsed by the military strikes on forces loyal to Colonel Qaddafi.

　リビアに対する制裁措置で先進国の足並みが乱れている？アメリカは一歩引いてヨーロッパ諸国の仲介、NATO内ではフランスとその他で態度の差が。