The Final Moments Before Military Intervention

The West, and most importantly the United States, is on the verge of intervening militarily in Libya. The United States’ major objective is to protect its interests and its Libyan oil supply, which consists of 1.5 million barrels a day. Second is the safety and protection of the Libyan people from the oppression caused by the Libyan regime, which is not at the top of the West’s list.

The first step toward military intervention might come from the United Nations Security Council in New York, supported and backed by the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. This military intervention will probably include a no-fly zone over Libya in order to prevent the Libyan regime from hunting down its own citizens using military air strikes and to stop Gadhafi from recruiting African mercenary armies. This was later admitted by Gadhafi’s son, Saadi Gadhafi.

The Pentagon has confirmed that it is now putting in place various plans and military scenarios. These plans are under the management and decision-making of President Obama.

This will, however, be only the first step of military intervention in Libya. These plans include occupying the Libyan oil fields in order to prevent the burning of the oil fields in Libya by the Libyan regime, as done in the past by Saddam Hussein in the final days of the Kuwaiti occupation. In addition, the plans include banning the use of military aircraft and tanks against civilians by the Libyan regime.

What do all these developments and plans mean?

First, the Libyan regime should recognize that the moment of truth has come. The West gave the Libyan regime a one week period to crush the people’s revolution with force. However, when it is now apparent that time ran out along with the failure of the Libyan regime to control and relocate the Libyan people back to their cages using force, terror, missile and tank attacks, the West began to rethink its evil deals with the Libyan regime. The Libyan government has sold all the freedom and rights of the Libyan people just to place the Libyan regime, its policies and military at the service of Washington and Brussels.

Second, the sons of Gadhafi, who have been revealed and are now believed to be the ones in control of Libya’s economy, politics and defense, have two options to maintain their control over Libya in the future. The first option is a suicide mission, which is the continuation of this losing battle with the possibility of using non-traditional weapons on the Libyan people. The other option is for the Gadhafi family to flee Libya to a safe neighboring African country, where the Gadhafis can spend their tens of millions of dollars saved up in secret international bank accounts.

At the moment, there is a chance for the Gadhafi family to flee. However, sooner or later, with the ongoing war against the Libyan people, it will be impossible for Gadhafi and his sons to flee Libya. Even with the possible intention of the West to deter the demands of the international community to charge Gadhafi for human rights violations and war crimes under international law.

The capital, Tripoli, is now perhaps looking forward to the division of Libya into separate eastern and western states. This division of Libya might also involve international military powers to force the country into a division, then hold negotiations between the divide. Division and negotiation will help Tripoli save its own illegitimate economic interests and guarantee the survival of the Libyan president as a symbol of resistance, as pointed out by Saadi Gadhafi.

The Western media are now against the rule of Gadhafi more than the Eastern/Arab media. That is the elephant in the room. The Western media is giving a voice to the Libyan martyrs who died in the struggle. These voices, which are constantly delivered by the Western media, are evidently against the Libyan regime. Soon, the voices of the international community will in turn become the rope tied around the Libyan regime’s neck, stopping it from slaughtering the Libyan people.

In the near future, the citizens of the western regions will once again roam the streets calling for the fall of the Libyan regime. The quick and hasty movement of the Security Council is a sign that calling for the fall of the regime is unpreventable and its time has come. That future has arrived today.