Unlike the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, the current fighting in Libya presents Al Qaeda with an opportunity to confirm its classic narrative about the importance of change through violence. More troubling still is that Libya’s violence reveals certain features of the Middle East that had been forgotten after the heady success in Tunis and Cairo.
与埃及和突尼斯的情况不同，利比亚正在进行的战斗为基地组织提供了证明其暴力改革经典论述重要性的机会。 更令人不安的是利比亚暴力事件揭示了中东地区的某些特点，这些特点在突尼斯和开罗令人兴奋的成功之后被忘得一干二净。