The United States announced last year a full normalisation of ties with Libya, lifting the country from a US State Department list of state sponsors of terrorism and raising diplomatic relations to the level of ambassadors.
Relations were restored in early 2004, following a break since 1981, a few weeks after Kadhafi announced that Tripoli was abandoning efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
Of course, Libya cooperated and turned over their materials to us rather than secretly stopping their program even while denying they ever had a nuclear weapons program, as Iran has done.
And we are responding to this retreat from WMD by restoring relations with Libya despite our displeasure with Khadaffi's dictatorship.
And of course, as I've mentioned before, Libya remains an inconvenient example of the falsity of our Left's position that it is only natural that Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons since they need them to deter us from aggression as our Left insists on portraying our liberation of Iraq.
And funny enough, our Left's embrace of Iran's supposed 2003 suspension means that yet another nuclear-pursuing country halted their nuclear weapons project rather than "naturally" go full bore to get a deterrent to our potential invasion.
Much about Iran's nuclear intentions remains confusing--and that assessment has a high confidence level.
