Randa Fahmy Hudome, the former US Associate Deputy Secretary of Energy, tells Al Jazeera that Obama is being "characteristically quiet' on Libya.
She says Western countries have little leverage on Libya, given years of cold relations.
"We have to look at the history about what our relationship has been with Libya," she said.
The Libyan elite, she notes, has done well since their country came in from the cold, after Gaddafi agreed to give up his WMD in 2003 in a deal with the Bush Administration. In return, Libya was removed from the "terrorist" list and international sanctions were lifted.
He managed to hold on to some chemical weapons, she comments.
But does Gaddafi care about sanction threats, given his pledge to fight to the bitter end?
8:32pm Patty Culhane, Al Jazeera's correspondent at the White House, says Obama's comments on Libya - that "this must stop" – are "striking".
Yet the White House is not considering any action, she reported, and sanctions are the only likely action in the foreseeable future.
"So far, however, the only action they're talking about is talking," Culhane said.
8:23pm The Swiss government has announced that it will freeze Gaddafi's assets.
7:57pm Interesting bit of graffiti in Tobruk. 
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