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If U.S. doesn't make Gadhafi go, who will?
By Shadi Hamid, Special to CNN
May 6, 2011 -- Updated 1510 GMT (2310 HKT)
Editor's note: Shadi Hamid is director of research at the Brookings Doha Center and a fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.
(CNN) -- In the aftermath of the successful Osama bin Laden operation, President Barack Obama has come out looking strong and determined on national security. Where the administration has often been accused of dithering, the narrative, at least for now, has shifted.
Unfortunately, though it's unlikely America's enemies are getting the message. If anything, embattled autocrats such as Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi are likely to use the Western media's wall-to-wall coverage of bin Laden's death to push even more aggressively against their opponents.
The death of bin Laden has turned attention away from an apparently deteriorating situation in Libya. A son and three grandchildren of Gadhafi were reportedly killed by NATO airstrikes last weekend. If Gadhafi's son, Saif al-Arab, was in fact killed, it could mean an even more vengeful regime response. Ahead of the funerals in Tripoli, regime forces renewed attempts to take rebel-held Misrata, which has been under siege for weeks.
Since the Libyan government announced the four deaths, however, the reports have remained unconfirmed. Some rebel leaders have suggested the deaths have been manufactured to generate sympathy for the regime.
The Libyan government is treating Saif al-Arab's purported death as a propaganda coup, arguing that NATO has violated its mandate. "What we have now is the law of the jungle," government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said. "What is happening in Libya has nothing to do with the protection of civilians."
For its part, NATO has intensified airstrikes on military infrastructure in Tripoli. Any hope for a negotiated resolution to the conflict seems further away than ever.
The bottom line is that nothing Gadhafi says or does can be trusted by the rebels or the international community. And without trust, negotiations are impossible. Increasingly, the conflict in Libya looks like it will be a fight to the very end. If Gadhafi refuses to cede power, then the only other options are capture or assassination, either at the hands of his own people, rebel forces or NATO.
According to the March 17 U.N. Security Council resolution, Gadhafi may very well be a legitimate target. NATO has been striking at military targets and pro-regime forces responsible for killing civilians. It is unclear why Gadhafi would be exempt from these categories. The U.N. resolution, after all, authorizes "all necessary measures" -- short of foreign occupation -- to protect civilians.
It is becoming increasingly evident that as long as Gadhafi is in charge, civilians are not and will not be safe. They continue to perish in large numbers at the hands of regime loyalists in Misrata and other cities.
Unfortunately, Western nations, particularly the United States, have been sending mixed messages to the Libyan people and the international community. Obama has insisted on the "limited" scope of the Libyan operation while, at the same time, insisting that Gadhafi must go. But if he won't, then who will make him go, and when?
Critics of the Libya intervention will complain of mission creep. And they will be right. The harsh reality, though, is that mission creep may be precisely what's needed to conclude the mission. Coming off its watershed success in the war on terror, the Obama administration has the opportunity to re-assert itself in Libya and redouble its efforts to force Gadhafi out of power.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Shadi Hamid.
Hết trích.
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Lịch sử thế giới đã chứng minh hầu hết những tên độc tài khát máu đều có những kết cuộc bi thảm và Ô NHỤC như nhau.
Ba nhân vật chính trong câu chuyện, độc tài Gadhafi
Muamma Gadhafi
"Trùm khủng bố thế giới" Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden
và Tổng Thống Mỹ Barack Obama
Barack Obama
(conbenho tạm đưa vào đây 3 tấm hình trong rất nhiều hình ảnh của 3 nhân vật này), các anh chị đọc bài viết trên và cùng chia sẻ suy nghĩ, ý kiến, nhận xét ..
_ Muammar Gadhafi có thật sự là "nhà độc tài" hàng đầu, nguy hiểm, giết dân nhiều nhất trên thế giới hiện nay ???
_ Osama bin Laden có thật sự là tên "trùm khủng bố đáng sợ nhất" vừa bị Mỹ hạ sát như "cả thế giới" đang nhìn vào và coi như "một hiện tượng nóng bỏng" ???
_ Barack Obama, đương kim Tổng Thống Mỹ có thật sự là "một Tổng Thống trẻ tuổi tài ba", vào thời kỳ Obama làm Tổng Thống, Mỹ đã "tóm" được và "diệt" được tên "trùm khủng bố" 911 mà cả 10 năm dài, các Tổng Thống Mỹ trước Obama "bó tay" ???
Nguyên nhân nào khiến cho bè lũ "khủng bố" "độc tài" sinh sôi nảy nở và hòanh hành, tàn sát con người ???
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