France-Turkey spat over Libya arms exposes NATO`s limits
(World News USA)

BRUSSELS (AP) — The festering dispute between France and Turkey over a naval standoff in the Mediterranean Sea has shone a glaring searchlight on NATO`s struggle to keep order among its ranks and exposed weaknesses in a military alliance that can only take action by consensus. The dispute has also revealed NATO`s limits when its allies are or are perceived to be on different sides of a conflict — in this case in Libya — especially when a major nuclear ally like France has lamented the “brain death” at the world`s biggest security organization due to a lack of American leadership. According to French accounts of the June 10 incident in the Mediterranean, the French frigate Courbet was...