Protecting the Libyan People
In Wednesday’s IHT, H.D.S. Greenway argued against Western enforcement of a no-fly zone over Libya. “Another Anglo-American intervention,” Greenway wrote, “would awaken all the suspicions that once again the world’s present and past policemen were interfering because of oil.” Job C. Henning, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency, disagrees.
As the world looks on, the discredited dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi brutally clings to power and represses an uprising that seeks to reject his 40 year rule. Part of a broader exhilarating and unforeseen sea-change in Arab politics, the Libyan situation is unique in that the state has responded to protests by murdering its citizens.… Seguir leyendo »