John McCain (left), the US Republican senator who ran for president in 2008 and is known in America as a foreign policy expert, has just been speaking to Sky News about the situation in Libya. He said: "Now we have succeeded militarily, now the major challenge of building democracy will come." It took the US over 100 years and a bloody civil war before it decided "what sort of country we wanted to be", McCain said.
He does love his 100 year timelines.