As Japan’s nuclear crisis deepened, Gaddafi revealed that he would cancel oil contracts with Europe and sign up instead the BRIC countries.
Will Libya Become a Second Iraq?
However different the two, Libya could still end up like Iraq today: a nation deeply divided not by sect and language but by geography and tribe.
Libya Needs Cancer of Gaddafi Removed, But U.S. More Slasher Than Surgeon
Unless the world is prepared to stand by and watch Libyans massacred, there is clearly a need for intervention.
Time for Intervention Running Out
With Libyan government forces advancing towards the rebel capital of Benghazi, the time for possible military intervention by the U.S. and its NATO or other allies appears to be running short.
Calls for Libya No-Fly Zone an Excuse to Put American Stamp on Arab Revolution?
A no-fly zone would be of little help halting the largely ground-based attacks on Libyan rebels and civilians.
Neo-Con Hawks Take Flight over Libya
In a distinct echo of the tactics they pursued to encourage U.S. intervention in the Balkans and Iraq, a familiar clutch of neo-conservatives appealed Friday for the United States and NATO to “immediately” prepare military action to help bring down the regime of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and end the violence that is believed to have killed well over a thousand people in the past week.