Sorry for the absence yesterday. I was helping an 11-year-old jailbreak an iPhone. It seems they still have children here in the future.
And I was also waiting for the full-time result from Libya. It isn’t over of course, in the sense that innocent people haven’t finished dying yet, but the end of the Gaddafi regime does seem inevitable now.
How will we know it’s truly gone? Simple. That’ll be when the rebels start fighting each other. What unites them all, apart from the conviction that Gaddafi could be defeated? Not a lot. Democracy? No one really fights for the opportunity to lose an election.
They’ve already managed to assassinate their own military leader in what was, even in the most charitable view, a factional revenge attack. So that doesn’t exactly bode well.
And even if the Gaddafis are out out of the picture, some of the forces nominally fighting for them will probably be happy to continue the war of their own behalf, and will seek common cause with factions within the rebellion. So in all likelihood we’re now moving from a two-sided war to a multi-polar conflict.
Celebration seems a little premature.
Related articles
- After Gaddafi, let’s hope for the best in Libya | Brian Whitaker (guardian.co.uk)
- War in Libya:Libyan rebels say will stop offensive if Gaddafi quits (laaska.wordpress.com)
- Falsified New York Times Middle East Reports – by Stephen Lendman (jhaines6.wordpress.com)
One reply on “Libya – Beginning Of The Start”
If the NTC is wise, they’ll invite UN peacekeepers to supervise disarming themselves, while they broker an agreement on powersharing in the meantime. I think all parties could benefit from that.