H.e Moammar Al-Qaddafi Death Should Send A Message To Other Despots:
We have been surprised at the opulent H.e Moammar al-Gaddafi regime: images of his Disney as a platform, with a Carousel and spinning cups; his painted gold sofa in the form of a Mermaid; his luxurious jet.
But when we think of Qaddafi, we will remember this: a staggering man soaked network Al-Jazeera. The crowd, which dragged him when he was still alive, wildly in his hair and firing automatic weapons. His half-naked body splayed out face down in the dust.
The message must be clear. Tyranny is an impressive way of life, but this is how this can end. You have to wonder if despots Bashar Al-Assad of Syria and Ali Abdallah Saleh of Yemen felt a bit squeamish yesterday.
Eventually a longtime buddy Assad and Qaddafi. When the rest of the world seek to condemn Gaddafi, Assad stood at his side, but reserved his criticism for the West and warning against any outside interference. Gaddafi called his opponents "rats". Assad referred to as his "bacteria" now any parallels with Gaddafi will only strengthen the other Arab spring uprising.
President Obama played their cards only Libya's right. He ignored in Congress, which demanded the boots on the ground, despite Qaddafi's sponsorship of terrorism against American citizens, such as victims of Pan Am flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. And he ignored others who insisted that we should sit back and do nothing.
He also avoided a vainglorious ads that we are ensnared in expensive, high-casualty of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Instead, he urged the international community to stand by and let the other Western countries, such as the United Kingdom and France to take the initiative to change. The West saw the opportunity to help tip the scales in Libya with unmanned air raids and the strategy paid off.
We have given our approach to the situation. In Egypt and Tunisia where a popular uprising was enough to shift the ruthless dictators. And in Syria, the chances are still can be stacked against the successful military intervention by the West. However, economic sanctions have helped slowly pry open Asad iron fist.
We hope that the death of Qaddafi does too. Elliott Abrams, a former Deputy National Security Adviser, wrote in August, the United States "one event, that would most help bring down, H.e Moammar Al-Qadhafi Assads would drop in Libya."
Since Gaddafi had remained in power, he reasoned, it remains unclear, the Arabic lessons: Spring-originally doomed dictators? Or they can win, shooting peaceful demonstrators?
"As soon as goes Qaddafi, Libya is sucking the oxygen from the Arab struggle for democracy will circulate again", wrote Abrams.
In the world of yesterday, it looked like toppling one more Domino: first fallen dictator of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Then down went to Hosni Mubarak.Now Al-Qadhafi. Who will be next?
Protesters in the city of Homs in Syria made their answer is clear: "the rat", Libya was caught yesterday, read their plates "next is the germ of Syria".
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