thousands are being slaughtered by the mentally-unhinged Gaddafi
family members and their supporters, Nicolas Sarkozy took this
Thursday the unprecedented step of recognizing the Libyan National
Transitional Council (NTC) as the sole representative of the people of
Libya after meeting NTC representatives at the Elysée Palace. What's
more, Paris will soon send an ambassador to Bengazi.
The Obama administration at first dragged its feet after its much
applauded leadership during the Egyptian Revolution, but it now seems
that it's poised to present next week to its NATO counterparts a plan
for an airspace exclusion zone ("no-fly zone") over Libya. And
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to meet NTC representatives
during her visit to Cairo next week. More importantly, the US is also
about to send a diplomatic representative in Bengazi.
And kudos to the European Council which followed in the footsteps of
Sarkozy in resolving today in no uncertain terms to call Gaddafi to
stand down and to "salute and to encourage the National Transitional
Council based in Bengazi which it now considers as a political
interlocutor," as Sarkozy quoted the resolution from memory.
Kudos to Jacob Zuma too for freezing all Libyan assets in South Africa.
All this diplomatic flurry of pressure is indeed laudable but time is
running out on the countdown clock of the Libyan revolutionaries!
Gaddafi's reactionary and mercenary troops are decisively pushing
towards Bengazi where they'd indiscriminately mow down people and tear
down the city to ashes.
Uncannily, despite the widespread recognition of the NTC, a legitimate
organ of the new democratic Libya, which is by the way expressly
asking for a no-fly zone, military technical assistance and weapons,
there are still talks about toughening sanctions against Gaddafi and
stepping up the isolation of his regime--moves that could take effect
in months or years, if any!
In the meantime, Libyans are dying like flies and a cloak of impending
doom has descended upon Bengazi and eastern Libya at the looming
prospect of certain destruction at the bloody hands of Gaddafi.
The international community shouldn't let pass this golden opportunity
to rid Libya and the world of a dangerous criminally-insane man and
his family of mass murderers.
It's high time for targeted missile strikes against Gaddafi's air
defense and radar assets (French companies installed them; they know
where they're located) as well as against planes and tanks that are a
bane of the Libyan revolutionaries.
Just consider this dreadful scenario: Gaddafi has eastern Libya under
his tight grip!
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