GADDAFI SURVIVES LIBYAN REVOLUTION, ACT OF GOD TO THE RESCUE?

Icheoku says it appears that God or Allah is against the planned external intervention in Libya; otherwise why is it now when the world is putting its head together, weighing the best option possible  to ensure the removal of Gaddafi from office that hellish earthquake and tsunami struck Japan; thereby shifting world's attention to the more important issue of the day?  Now it is a question of which one is more important - helping a devastated society survive two tragic catastrophes or helping to destroy another that has some semblance of normalcy, irrespective of the so called ongoing but almost squelched peoples revolution.

Icheoku says there should be no external intervention in Libya otherwise the purported revolution will lose its flavor of a peoples move against their unwanted leader and becomes an aggression. How much is too much to ask for especially coming from Muslim Arabs who are still cursing and abusing the United States of America over its foreign policy initiatives and interventions in other Muslim countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan. What suddenly changed or is Libya no longer one of their Arab country that must be left alone and free of American imperialism. Arabs do not like America or its foreign policy objectives, so why would the same haters of America now desire the same American foreign policy manoeuvres which they have hitherto condemned as Zionist-instigated? Why would it suddenly be okay now for America to intervene in an Arab Muslim country, Libya, when it is not okay to do so in other such countries as these Muslim Arabs have severally consistently protested. They do not want us and we should therefore not make ourselves available for their selfish need to get power, not this time of a fork on the road at Tripoli.

The revolting Libyans called it a "peoples revolution" and such a revolution should it remain; so if they want Gaddafi out, let them take him out by themselves and not make us do their dirty job only for them to later throw us out with the added abuses and insults such as burning our flags and stomping on our national glory? Egyptians removed their Hosni Mubarak without our help or intervention; Tunisians did same without our assistance, so why must it now be incompetent and incapable Libyans who cannot pull theirs off that we must assist; moreso after blowing up our PAN AM airline over Lockerbie Scotland killing our 208 nationals. What are the Libyans giving us in return - the alleged bomber who was released to them on the urging of British government or what? America must secure some guarantee from Libyans before stepping up, if ever otherwise lets just say to them, we are not interested. Icheoku says American intervention in Libya is not a good move as it will later come to haunt us as has always been the case with our other interventions in the Arab world. If France Sarkozy wants to do it, oh well and dandy, but not with our help or assistance as the French has been lukewarm with helping us out in matters of our foreign policy adventurism throughout the world, including Iraq and Afghanistan. Let the French go into Libya and pay the cost both in treasure and blood required to unseat Gaddafi for all Icheoku cares; but there must be no American assistance for them.

At the moment, Icheoku is of the opinion that two successful revolutions are more than enough in the Arab world and that America should just help Tunisia and Egypt consolidate their gains instead of over-extending itself trying to secure Libya too. With Iraq and now Egypt and Tunisia, a flourishing democracy in these three countries will help the rest of the region do what is needed at the appropriate future time; but they all do not have to democratize at the same time and not NOW. One commentator queried, assuming America were to intervene in Libya now, what happens if some dissidents in Saudi Arabia or Jordan call upon her tomorrow to also intervene to remove their leaders? What will happen to their prospective requests and when will enough be truly enough with America trying to be everything to everyone in the world. Power is what it is and never freely given, so if those revolting "highly medicated" Libyans want it so badly, they should go and get it from Gaddafi but without our assistance. It is not our place to secure a revolution for those Libyans and we should tell them exactly so and let them decide what their future is but in any event, they should leave us out of their domestic problem. Look at the Egypt's revolution that has now transmuted into religious ideological fight with Muslims burning Christian churches and you wonder who actually is pushing this supposed revolutions; or may be Gaddafi was right that al-Querida is sponsoring these revolutions to create their Islamic caliphate in Northern Africa spreading into Middle East.

But Moummar Gaddafi may, if he cashes in on the shifted attention caused by the double whammy tragedy of Japan and acts swiftly, reassert his control throughout the Mediterranean coastal region of Libya including Benghazi the stronghold of those dissident; thus giving credence to the assessment of his army spokesman who said that those rebels are "a group of rats and vermin" who will raise their hands in surrender as soon as they march into the city. Icheoku cannot wait to see how this Libyan crisis is finally resolved and would love to see France forced to withdraw their recognition of a non-existent government made up of the same opportunistic people who served in the same Gaddafi's regime they are now disparaging and raising arms against. Icheoku asks at what point did these so called do-gooders in the interim national council realize that Moummar Gaddafi is a despot; yet they served him for a very long time without complaining. The good news however is that the Libyan revolution now seem to be petering to a halt, having been aborted by an embolden Gaddafi army killing off the insurgents and any attempt by the world to rekindle it through military intervention of any kind will only hurt Libyans and the world oil price - two scenarios no reasonable leader wants to see happen. So, let the Libyan people cart their own destiny, if they want Gaddafi out, let them do the heavy lifting but in any case, America must stay out of intervening in another Arab Muslim country, period!