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    • By Kevin Baron
      National Journal

      Call him the billion-dollar man. One billion for one dictator.

      According to the Pentagon, that was the cost to U.S. taxpayers for Muammar el-Qaddafi's head: $1.1 billion through September, the latest figure just out of the Defense Department.

      And that's just for the Americans.

      The final totals will take some time to add up, and still do not include the State Department, CIA, and other agencies involved or other NATO and participating countries. Vice President Joe Biden said that the U.S. "spent $2 billion total and didn't lose a single life." NATO does not track the operational costs to each member country, but the funds directly taken from a common NATO account for Libya operations have totaled about $7.4 million per month for electronic warfare capabilities and $1.1 million per month for headquarters and command staff, a NATO spokesman said.

      (PHOTOS: Qaddafi Through the Years)

      From the beginning of Operation Unified Protector in March, critics have

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    • By George E. Condon Jr.
      National Journal

      No one in 2008 could have anticipated that the greatest triumphs and signature moments in Barack Obama's presidency would come in the realm of foreign affairs. But with the reports Thursday of the capture and possible death of Muammar el-Qaddafi in Libya, Obama's successes overseas now dwarf his domestic accomplishments.

      President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 20,2011, to discuss the death of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Charles DharapakUnder Obama's watch, the foreign dictators responsible for the most American deaths — Qaddafi and Osama bin Laden — are gone , giving a measure of justice to the thousands who died on Sept. 11, 2001 and the 270 killed in the downing of Pan Am 103 in 1988. Add to the terrorist toll Anwar al-Awlaki killed just last month, and add the winding-down of the war in Iraq and the president has a record Democrats will be eager to run on in 2012.

      The problem for the Democrats and for Obama, of course, is that foreign policy is likely to be at best a minor factor in next year's presidential campaign. Americans today — and voters next year —

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    • By Beth Reinhard
      National Journal

      Faced with making a giant leap from novelty act to political statesman -- in Las Vegas, of all places -- surging Republican candidate Herman Cain predictably fell short in Tuesday's debate.

      The corporate executive who has charmed his way to the top of the polls with a broad smile and a penchant for fiery oratory failed to defend his "9-9-9" tax plan amid a barrage of attacks from his Republican presidential rivals. The best he could do was to dismiss criticisms as "simply not true,'' accuse critics of "talking apples and oranges,'' and direct voters to an "analysis performed by fiscal associates'' on his campaign website.

      "I'm not afraid to try to sell it to the American people,'' said the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza, who clearly understands the power of repetition in advertising but doesn't want consumers to bother with the fine print. Asked in a survey by The Washington Post and Pew Research Center to come up with a single word to

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