When Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi threatened to kill his rebellious detractors like “rats,” a UN coalition intervened under an emerging global doctrine: the responsibility to protect. But three years after Qaddafi’s ouster, Libya remains hobbled by weak national institutions and roiled by factional fighting.
当利比亚的卡扎菲威胁要把反对派批评者像“老鼠”一样杀掉时，联合国军根据新的全球信条——保护责任（responsibility to protect）实施了干预。但在卡扎菲被推翻三年后，利比亚的国家机构仍孱弱不堪，派系斗争仍层出不穷。