Two months ago, it seemed certain that a popular uprising, which had forced the resignation of the autocratic presidents of Egypt and Tunisia, would engulf Libya, the oil-rich north African state led by the tyrannical President Muammar Gaddafi, who has ruled his country with a rod of iron since 1969.
Instead, the popular uprising in Libya has descended into stalemate, with Gaddafi still entrenched in his capital, Tripoli, and apparently unmoved by the rebellion in eastern Liby…
