The argument over whether to fight in Libya had many aspects to it – ideology, national interest, diplomacy, military calculation. But the most important divide in the western world was temperamental. The Libyan debate pitted the hotheads against the ditherers. The leaders of the hotheads are Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France, and David Cameron, the prime minister of Britain. The ditherer-in-chief is Barack Obama, the US president, backed up by Angela Merkel, the German chancellor.
要不要對利比亞動武？圍繞這個問題的爭論涉及多個方面——意識形態、國家利益、外交政策、軍事運籌。但西方世界最重要的差異在於領導人的稟性。有關利比亞的辯論形成了衝動派與猶豫派的對立。衝動派的領頭者是法國總統尼古拉•薩科吉(Nicolas Sarkozy)和英國首相大衛•卡麥隆(David Cameron)。而猶豫派的最高統領是美國總統巴拉克•歐巴馬(Barack Obama)，站在他這邊的是德國總理安格拉•梅克爾(Angela Merkel)。
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