In one way I really hope that time will prove me wrong on this, but until then the action against Libya seems like pure madness.A madness which we certainly can not afford, financially or otherwise. The gung-ho reaction by politicians & sections of the press disturbs me greatly
Not because Gaddaffi,or his family, deserve to stay, but because nobody seems to have any very clear idea of who should replace him, or what kind of system might be used to allow the Libyan people to choose. Nor does it seem at all clear that those supposedly in a better position to know do in fact know anything of the sort. David Cameron seems to have been infected & misled by the same misty eyed belief that he is somehow doing a Good Thing, supporting some ill-identified group of rebels, meddling in an ethnic, tribal regional rivalry which he - & more importantly, acting on what our much vaunted but grossly overestimated intelligence services tell him.
No wonder Arab league countries are so pleased to have the West’s attention diverted in this way
