Washington : US Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview published today that NATO can handle Libya without US help, saying Washington's efforts are better focused on places like Pakistan or Egypt.
"If the Lord Almighty extricated the US out of NATO and dropped it on the planet of Mars so we were no longer participating, it is bizarre to suggest that NATO and the rest of the world lacks the capacity to deal with Libya -- it does not," Biden told the Financial Times.
"Occasionally other countries lack the will, but this is not about capacity," he told the daily amid deep unease among the US public and lawmakers over military action in Libya.
His comments came after the US Defence Department said the US military had flown more than 800 sorties over Libya since handing control of the air campaign's operations to NATO. AFP-PTI
