It appears that the anti-Qaddafi insurrection in Libya is destined to be crushed by the overwhelming power of the government forces against the motivated but now desperate rebels.
The defeat of the revolting forces, armed with AK-47 and machetes and whatever weapons they could seize during their initial victories, is being assured by the full force of the Libyan military, reportedly aided by mercenary forces from other African countries.
The defeat of the rebels, though, is being sealed by the complete inaction of the West in support of the insurgents. Since the beginning of the rebellion, the forces opposed to Qaddafi have been asking the West to help them in their efforts by countering the superior military power of the government, especially its air power. The West has been mulling over the establishment of a no-fly zone over Libya, where forces from the international community would intervene against the air power Qaddafi has been using against his people, but while the mulling continues, Qaddafi is achieving his murderous victory.
The United Nation is missing in action. There has never been a bloody dictator that the international body has ever disliked and even in this case, they appear to be more interested in Qaddafi maintaining power than to act in support of democracy in Libya. Possibly, once the Libyan thug reasserts his power, they will name him head of the Human Right Commission. That’s how the UN operates. Just today the UN finally voted on a resolution for a no-fly zone, just as its purposefulness has expired.
Great Britain and France had appeared to take the lead on supporting the rebels, but no concrete steps have been taken by either nation to translate words into actions. So, while the rebels get slaughtered, while they plea for help from the West, while their numbers are slowly depleted, the West continues to have meetings and conferences where nothing is accomplished in view of any real assistance for the rebels.
And we have the President of the United States, too busy to get involved into the situation in Libya, with all the conferences on bullying and the NCAA bracketing demands he has to attend to. I am surprised he had enough time to address the devastation in Japan.
The situation in Libya was a great opportunity to help the people of that nation in their efforts to rid themselves of a dictator that for over 40 years has pillaged and brutalized an entire country. This was the chance to take out of circulation a head of state that has been supporting international terrorism, most of it against the United States, for three decades and who is personally responsible for the downing of PanAm 103. You may say I am looking for revenge, and you may be right.
But, as we have seen again and again in the last two years, Obama is not at all interested in foreign policy, leaving its conduct to the often missing Sec. Clinton.
The situation in Libya is turning into a victory for the Qaddafi regime. Governmental forces allegedly have the rebels surrounded in one town and are relentlessly shelling the place, with little or no regard for the civilians living in that city. Exactly the action that will get Qaddafi a seat at the Human Rights Commission.
As per president Obama, it is time to go on vacation, as he prepares for a nice trip to Brazil (guess there was no closer place where he can get some relaxation). But it is important for Obama to make sure that his friends Jeremiah Wright and Luis Farrakhan happy when it comes to Qaddafi. There is a long trail of connections between the two men and the Libyan strongman, and a history of support from Qaddafi to the causes of Wright and Farrakhan.
The consequences of the failure of the West are going to be long term and painful, but only for the common American people, not for the regime in Washington. Qaddafi has been a long time supporter of terrorism and the only reason cause he had remained silent for the last few years is because he was shaken by the elimination of Saddam Hussein from power thanks to American intervention. He surely did not want to be next.
But with the way the West has reacted, backing the rebel horse while allowing it to lose the race is an actual invitation for Qaddafi to return to his old ways, to his terror supporting ways, because, as the situation clearly showed, there is no entity in the world any longer willing to step up and do the right thing. Especially in the White House.
Moreover, the message sent to anyone thinking to seek a more free political condition in their country, which would have attracted the support of the United States, is that the USA are not going to be there to assist, as long as this Nation remains deprived of any real leadership.
At the same time, every terrorist across the globe is surely taking note that, just as the perfect conditions developed during the Clinton years that brought us September 11, they practically have a free reign to continue the infiltration and attack of our country with impunity.
Just as the Iranian attempt to democracy in 2009, the current situation in Libya is another total failure of the West and the United States to aid in the removal of a dictator. The people of Libya, at least those who will survive, will have a long anti-West, anti-American memory.
Just my thoughts!
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