International Writing. .- Former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar has criticized U.S. and some European countries to launch a military strike against the regime of Muammar al-Gaddafi, despite the Libyan leader had become the last eight years " eccentric friend "of the West. Aznar also complained that these countries do not act the same way against the regimes in Iran or Syria.
In a lecture delivered at Columbia University in New York, Aznar also regretted that the West had turned their backs on the now-former presidents of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, and Tunisia, Abidine Ben Ali, considered in the past "friends" West. In answer to a question on the situation in the Middle East, Aznar added that "Syria and Iran protesters appealed to the West to support them, but this country (USA) and European countries did nothing." "It's very difficult to understand a policy that lets friends and enemies fall to remain in power," he said at the conference, delivered in English, on Monday, and posted on the website of the American university.
Aznar recalled that before 2003 Gaddafi had supported terrorism and was "a disaster", but this year, before the invasion of Iraq, "began to think: 'if there is regime change in Iraq, maybe there will be regime change here, which means that I will change me (other) ', "and reversed its policy.
Beginning in 2003, said Aznar, Gaddafi has supported "the efforts of the West against terrorism" and has abandoned its biological weapons programs, chemical and nuclear. Qaddafi remains "an extravagant man, a strange man," acknowledged Aznar, however, even if "a quirky friend is a friend." The former prime minister of Spain regretted the inconsistency of the current U.S.
policy of "backing the rebels (Libyan) without even knowing who the rebels." This policy of military intervention against Gaddafi, Aznar argued, "runs the risk of riding a mess" because it teaches Middle Eastern regimes that they should "stay in power, not to reform and have very powerful weapons" for not be attacked.
Added, in apparent reference to Iran, "if you have nuclear weapons there will be no attack on you." 
In a lecture delivered at Columbia University in New York, Aznar also regretted that the West had turned their backs on the now-former presidents of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, and Tunisia, Abidine Ben Ali, considered in the past "friends" West. In answer to a question on the situation in the Middle East, Aznar added that "Syria and Iran protesters appealed to the West to support them, but this country (USA) and European countries did nothing." "It's very difficult to understand a policy that lets friends and enemies fall to remain in power," he said at the conference, delivered in English, on Monday, and posted on the website of the American university.
Aznar recalled that before 2003 Gaddafi had supported terrorism and was "a disaster", but this year, before the invasion of Iraq, "began to think: 'if there is regime change in Iraq, maybe there will be regime change here, which means that I will change me (other) ', "and reversed its policy.
Beginning in 2003, said Aznar, Gaddafi has supported "the efforts of the West against terrorism" and has abandoned its biological weapons programs, chemical and nuclear. Qaddafi remains "an extravagant man, a strange man," acknowledged Aznar, however, even if "a quirky friend is a friend." The former prime minister of Spain regretted the inconsistency of the current U.S.
policy of "backing the rebels (Libyan) without even knowing who the rebels." This policy of military intervention against Gaddafi, Aznar argued, "runs the risk of riding a mess" because it teaches Middle Eastern regimes that they should "stay in power, not to reform and have very powerful weapons" for not be attacked.
Added, in apparent reference to Iran, "if you have nuclear weapons there will be no attack on you."
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