By Wesley Pruden

Presidential elections don’t turn on what’s happening abroad. Barack Obama could be grateful for that much.

Gallup finds that a tiny “kill bump” rewarded the president after the capture and slaying of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya, but good news from the Islamic world, which hasn’t yet felt the dawn of the 9th century, always comes with a catch. The desert tyrant can be expected to stay dead, but Libya’s oppressed masses won’t be much better off than they were. Another tyrant is always on the way.

Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, who as the chairman of the National Transitional Council is the de-facto president of the country, promised Sunday that Shariah, the Islamic legal system that imposes order with misery and dread, will be the “basic source” of Libyan law. . .

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