Playing With Dick In Sleep

by Roberto Di Ferdinando

The tragic events in Japan have shifted international attention from the Libyan revolt, and, in silence, Gaddafi, feeling less under pressure, is regaining ground and driving off the rebels. All the strong statements against violence in the West in rais quell the internal revolt are now increasingly rare, the British plans to arm the rebels have been abandoned, the no-fly zones, to save the rebels bombed government, not be imposed, the U.S. ships stay away from the coasts of Libya and the pressure Obama administration leave the country because Gaddafi has been weakened. Gaddafi is recovering control of the country. What went wrong? Much, but mainly have been underestimated in many ways.
Compared to Tunisia and Egypt, in Libya, the revolt was much better armed and bloody, and the army remained here, outside of some defections from the Rais, who has, in fact, much, on level of prestige and power. The key military tasks are covered by people belonging to the same tribe wing of Colonel, and that Libya has a very important value. Ben Ali and Mubarak made well aware that it no longer control their own power, Gadhafi, however, after the first few days of hesitation, she replied with resolve and military violence and mercenary rebels, counting on the support of some tribes and more than three decades of despotic power and censorship of all opposition, then a control iron and the country's military with no opening to the outside (Egypt and Tunisia, despite non-democracies, under their previous presidents were open countries with the rest of the world). The Libyan is also facing a rebellion against the Libyan government then just a matter internal to Libya, Gaddafi is a dictator-in spite of terrorism, the international community could and can do little. Unimaginable, in fact, a bombing or an invasion Libya's military, as was the previous U.S. administrations and NATO predicted for Serbia (although there was a bloodthirsty dictator, Milosevic, but the military intervention was justified to end the massacre of the minority from Kosovo) and even with UN support for Iraq (another violent satrap, Saddam Hussein, but nobody, not even in the Arab world, and wanted to save that after September 11 was the less dangerous enemy for the U.S. to attack and win as a sign of force against international terrorism). Gaddafi then you are saving, because investment has spread all over the world and a period of economic crisis within financial markets and these flights would be willing to lose money because Libya controls important and significant energy resources that are indispensable to the West wants an economic recovery, because the U.S. is already working on large theaters and open another one in the heart of the Mediterranean and the outcome not granted, the U.S. military does not like hierarchies, because Gaddafi Libya provides a secular, because in the end to many that the Colonel should remain in power in Tripoli. So, unfortunately, good Gaddafi to all! RDF