Gaddafi can be stubborn, but that is no reason to not stand up to him. The 'real' people of Libya took to the streets to protest against the evil that they experienced daily. Such frustration! He could have seen what he was supposed to see, but he has such a dark heart, a brain like a worn shoe battered by being that the bottom of life's footsteps.
Gaddafi is no doubt a dark side man that perpetuates cruel tyranny, a clown to our logic of sanity and dignity, a toothache to ping our conscience now and again.
We exclaim that we deplore the actions of this horrible man! He has so many fearing his insane logic that has him implicated in alls sorts of infamy. We can easily estimate that he, like Mugabe, has done so much damage to the potential for peaceful development of Africa.
What an ugly combination of deeds he has carried through! He has no real friends Gavin cornered power and abused it. What a failure of a man, who could have done so much for his country!
Our hearts go out to those who struggle against this man, his misled family and those who allow such a barbaric state of affairs of a tyrant to continue on and on seemingly for ever, and so close to Europe.
Mugabe's best friend? It seems all the misdirected tyrants are good friends or is it that they co-habit filthy mental realms.
No mistake, Libya has been and is Europe's Cuba. Perhaps, it will be seen as historically far more dangerous.
War in Libya is so close to the seat of two world wars and this alone should be enough to make the powerful pause and think. But, Cuba and Libya are so very very different.
We see so many ordinary people across the Middle East who want peace and normality.
Sad though it is, wars are not always won. Nor, do they necessarily lead to outcomes that fit into a picture of harmony and God's country.
The fact is you don't often choose your war, you are handed it as a done deal, or a work in progress over which you have no outright control nor winning combination of weapons and forces. However, to ignore what you should be paying attention to, or to choose your wars because you think you will win, these habits can make wars a dangerous reality and an unavoidable trap, a direction into a future that is governed by forces based on your grasp of morals rather than expediency.
Deny legitimate conflict when you can be a meaningful aid against tyranny and you lose your moral basis. No one wants to fight wars and no one wins them, but they are the black holes of our more immediate cosmos.
Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya form a chain of rapidly evolving countries across North Africa. We are largely observers of a struggle by the inhabitants, the so-called rebels, the ordinary people seeking out for human dignity. They should remind us of our ancestral past in which many gave their lives for freedoms we now take for granted. We saw the power of peaceful protest in Tunisia and Egypt and we witnessed the force of influence on the military of both countries as exercised by France and the United States.
Libya is a curious case of guilty conscience for France for which pilots that would be shooting civilians were trained originally in France and if one flew to Libya during the 1970s one might guess that the pilot was trained in France or was French. Such are the connections of Libyan air power to France that it was clear that a kernel of moral responsibility existed within France to offset the abuse of flight training received as a original gesture of good will from France namely that air power be used for self defense or commerce and not to slaughter citizens.
It was particularly painful for French military pilots to see people of Benghazi about to be massacred and pretty understandable that there would be a general heart felt call for immediate action to reduce the potential death toll of a community of people the pilots knew personally. Few Europeans have visited Libya!
The fact that Ghaddafi employed his fortune to hire mercenaries from French speaking countries was also a trigger for the French military. In an area of influence where stability is an oasis, they could easily bemoan the demise of real influence for peace coming from French initiatives.
Similarly, the British have very personal connections with Libya having created much of the infrastructure and oil sector and at times a few having bonded fairly closely with the people of Cyrenaica. It is easy to be sympathetic to people that have values so similar to one's own. We are not so very different from the 'average' Libyan in what we want from life!
The American interest in Libya would perhaps be more guarded having suffered from a terrorist attack organized in Libya and yet having done nothing much about terrorism originating from that country. As good fortune would have it, there arises the very real possibility America might do something right for the wrong reasons.
To help the community of Benghazi fend off a murderer about to begin slaughter of innocents is pretty wonderful especially as the people you are defending are Muslim and descended from one of the poorest communities in the world before oil was descovered. The second world war had left the region in a state of continuous conflict.
The observation of how the wealth of Libya was spent on the Tripoli side of Libya showed the direction of the future development of the country favoring large hotels there. It was no secret that Tripoli and Benghazi were at economic war and Tripoli had won because of it's Gaddafian sons.
Having helped create the infrastructure of the threatened regions of Libya, I can sympathize with their plight. It's sad that war has to be waged at all in Libya, but you can understand how people there should be given an opportunity to share equally in the world community and not live forever in fear and desperation.
By waging a limited and highly legitimate moral war in Libya, America might just have taken the first positive step in really fighting the roots of terrorism, which arise from protecting the illegitimate interests of dictators. Libyans will remember that it was France that took action and America that followed. In Europe, it's common place for people to say America often arrives late to fight a legitimate war, but early to fight one that's illegitimate.
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