{"id":5504,"date":"2011-02-21T00:19:54","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T22:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5504"},"modified":"2012-12-12T17:09:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T16:09:59","slug":"why-doesnt-nato-help-the-libyans-get-rid-of-gadaffi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5504","title":{"rendered":"Why doesn’t NATO help the Libyans get rid of Gadaffi?"},"content":{"rendered":"

First I recommend that you read the life of Muammar al Gaddafi<\/a> on Wikipedia. After you are done, you may wonder how such a disgusting human being can still be the ruler of Libya. Now that the people of Libya are being massacred by Gaddafi, and clearly want to see him to go, should not NATO send a few fighters over Libya and turn the tide? I am not saying that an immediate attack makes sense; that may lead to nationalism and even more innocent civilian casualties. But the US and the EU could send a clear message that said: stop killing your people, democratize, give freedom to the press, or we will act. the USA almost killed Gaddafi in 1986<\/a>, so he would probably get the message. The difference between Gadaffi and other dictators is that he has been a sponsor of international terrorism as in the case of the tragic flight over Lockerbie where 270 people died.<\/a> In any case Gadaffi may fall out of the pure will of its own people but should he continued killing as he has been doing I think EU and USA should seriously consider a military option. The threat of use of force this time could accomplish more than the actual use of force has accomplished in Afghanistan and Iraq.<\/p>\n

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First I recommend that you read the life of Muammar al Gaddafi on Wikipedia. After you are done, you may wonder how such a disgusting human being can still be the ruler of Libya. Now that the people of Libya are being massacred by Gaddafi, and clearly want to see him to go, should not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[658,623],"class_list":["post-5504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","tag-gaddafi","tag-libya"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t