It's been a month since a part of Libya was raised against the absurd and cruel rule of Colonel Gaddafi. A month that the rebel movement, which no one had suspected the possibility of hope that hands tend to avoid being drowned in blood. At the moment this newspaper from printing the complete reconquest of the country and killing by soldiers and mercenaries of the dictator no longer appears to be a matter of hours and minutes.
Meanwhile, New York, the Security Council should vote on a resolution authorizing military action against Libya. Units of French, British, American and Arab are ready, they say, to go into action at the UN green light [The resolution has indeed been adopted, and strikes against Gaddafi's troops should begin this Friday].
How did this happen? Why did it take the legions of Colonel have plenty of time to spray the rebels and massacred civilians, town after town along the shores of the Mediterranean, before the vote the last chance? Valuable time was wasted in diplomatic posturing. The windows were closed firing one after the other.
All kinds of bodies have been consulted, the UN, NATO, the EU, the G8. Westerners have glossed the days and weeks on a fly zone, while the decisive battles were engaged on the ground. Many hoped that such maneuvers were living a smokescreen to hide an intervention on the ground, unobtrusive, invisible, to support the rebels.
Their successive defeats but showed that it was not. That opponents of Gadhafi were alone, without the means to communicate. That looks like our world of "soft governance" after the Cold War, after the great American lie in Iraq. More than any government has the courage to intervene "old" and drop a few thugs in the bush or desert to support guerrillas secretly or a liberation movement.
Political correctness won geopolitics. The legality took precedence over justice. "Get ready, we come tonight," Gaddafi yesterday launched the Benghazi. The free world can he really afford to offer this triumph? 
Meanwhile, New York, the Security Council should vote on a resolution authorizing military action against Libya. Units of French, British, American and Arab are ready, they say, to go into action at the UN green light [The resolution has indeed been adopted, and strikes against Gaddafi's troops should begin this Friday].
How did this happen? Why did it take the legions of Colonel have plenty of time to spray the rebels and massacred civilians, town after town along the shores of the Mediterranean, before the vote the last chance? Valuable time was wasted in diplomatic posturing. The windows were closed firing one after the other.
All kinds of bodies have been consulted, the UN, NATO, the EU, the G8. Westerners have glossed the days and weeks on a fly zone, while the decisive battles were engaged on the ground. Many hoped that such maneuvers were living a smokescreen to hide an intervention on the ground, unobtrusive, invisible, to support the rebels.
Their successive defeats but showed that it was not. That opponents of Gadhafi were alone, without the means to communicate. That looks like our world of "soft governance" after the Cold War, after the great American lie in Iraq. More than any government has the courage to intervene "old" and drop a few thugs in the bush or desert to support guerrillas secretly or a liberation movement.
Political correctness won geopolitics. The legality took precedence over justice. "Get ready, we come tonight," Gaddafi yesterday launched the Benghazi. The free world can he really afford to offer this triumph?
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