It is ten in the evening, and I am waiting at the elevators in the lobby of the Hotel Westin with Mahmoud Jibril, one of the leaders of the Libyan insurrection. Jibril has made a special trip to plead on behalf of the civilians whom Colonel Muammar Qaddafi and his sons have promised to drown in rivers of blood.
让我们快进到2011年5月的巴黎。这位纽约参议员已经在奥巴马内阁中任职国务卿。刚刚闭幕的法国G-8峰会被她的光环所笼罩。晚上10点，我还和马哈茂德·贾布里勒守候在威斯汀酒店大堂的电梯旁，后者是利比亚起义的领导人之一。贾布里勒专程前来代表民众请命，卡扎菲上校和他的儿子曾发誓要让这些人血流成河。