After those Ben Ali Mubarak and also ultraquarantennale power Gaddafi seems to have come to an end.
course the regime is not willing to sell the cheap leather and news of the clashes yesterday we confirm this.
In the stories of the many movements of revolt that are burning in the Middle East in 2011 that they had never seen air raids on protesters: the reaction of a mad dictator, now at war against his people (that European governments, including ours, should not have been slow to condemn without ifs or buts) that there is a measure of the will of a violent crackdown on a bloody and certainly did not glimpse the prospect a peaceful transition.
But now it seems the road follows: when a regime is monolithic and without cracks, as was the Libyan distinctions begin to emerge and taken away, even with a high level, it means that the dictator days are numbered.
and defections of ministers and senior diplomats around the world are certainly not lacking in the past 24 hours.
Then when an imam who preaches regularly at 40 million viewers end up saying that "c hiunque Libyan army is capable of firing a bullet to Gaddafi should do it" means that the buck has reached terminal.
The power of Gaddafi will procrastinate until his fall will be able to control the army, but if the soldiers will join the rioters (and already reported the first appeals to Libyan officials to do so) the acceleration will happen to those conclusions. Not only holds a country with militias and mercenaries.
The fall of a dictatorship is always good news and one can only hope that this result does not require other charges by the protesters with blood and anguish of family members of such foreign personnel (including Italian) which resides in those countries, but we would be naive if we illudessimo that what is happening in North Africa is necessarily a prelude to enlargement of the boundaries of democracy in the world, as did those who have likened the collapse of Middle Eastern regimes to which Today we are witnessing the collapse of the Soviet Union's satellite states occurred in the late '80s.
Today we are in 1989 and North Africa is not Eastern Europe. The domino effect may be recalled that the events took place "behind the Iron Curtain" 20 years ago, but the similarities stop there. It 's all to prove that struck countries of the revolutions of these weeks, the transition could lead to a Western-style democracy, as it did then.
It 's the background to be different: religious freedom, freedom of speech and dissent, equality among ethnic groups and even between the sexes are values \u200b\u200band points of reference in those contexts will have to work hard to assert itself, as well as respect for the mechanisms of the democratic process without authoritarian temptation of shortcuts based on force. For now, where dictatorships have already fallen as in Tunisia and Egypt, the signals are shy.
The West needs to know which side they are even if he can not interfere militarily with the motions of the square, and a minute after the fall of regimes should seek to carve out a diplomatic role that is not just that of a spectator. It's not about imperialism, but the need to help these people to guide the transition of their governments toward solutions that protect individual freedoms.
The transition from one dictatorship to another (or even military-style Islamic cleric) certainly does not justify the price in blood that is paid at this time.
Already, in the eastern part of Libya, hear of establishing an Islamic Emirate under the direct control of extremists close to Al Qaeda. The West does not sleep, so that others will not.
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