Friday, March 4, 2011

Foreign intervention in Libya is feasible?

Hurry to leave power by the insurgents and the international community Libya, Muammar Gaddafi clings. Forces loyal to guide the revolution launched, Wednesday, March 2, a cons-offensive in the east, carrying out air raids in the region of Ajdabiya, south of Benghazi, and committing ground troops in Berga , scene of heavy fighting.

Against possible excesses, Western powers are reluctant to react militarily. Guide him, warned: "thousands of Libyans will die in case of intervention of American or NATO." Disagreements persist within the Atlantic Alliance The possibility of military intervention was discussed Wednesday during a meeting of ambassadors of the 28 member countries held in Brussels, but as noted by the Secretary U.S.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, "there is no consensus within NATO for the use of force." Is unclear on how and whether even such a commitment. For the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, "NATO has nothing to do there. He can not intervene militarily when ally is attacked." Moscow, which cooperates with the Atlantic Alliance, also disagreed, accusing the organization of "trying to locate in this region, under pretext of trying to pacify the situation in North Africa." The introduction of a difficult fly zone Should there be a no-fly zone to prevent aircraft from Colonel Qaddafi to bomb people? The United States and Great Britain are in favor, but the measure is "extremely complicated" to implement, according to U.S.

Admiral Mike Mullen. Because it is to ban the aerial survey of a defined space, the device requires constant monitoring and deployment of considerable resources (Read Libya: the creation of a no-fly zone under discussion). Its establishment also requires the prior removal of air defense capabilities of the enemy.

"It would be a military operation," as explained before a U.S. Senate committee General James Mattis. NATO, with a fleet of twenty aircraft, AWACS radar, has already led in the past missions to fly, and could easily rely on contributions fighter aircraft of its members. But the decision is not unanimous.

French side, the Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe, said he was reluctant to any intervention in Libya "without a clear mandate from the Security Council of the United Nations." Show of force from the USS Kearsarge off the coast of Libya absence of joint decision for the time, Westerners are trying to keep the pressure on the regime of Gaddafi by other means.

Two U.S. warships entered Wednesday in the Mediterranean Sea after crossing the Suez Canal. The helicopter carrier USS Kearsarge and USS Ponce, two amphibious vessels, can provide support to humanitarian operations as well as military. A U.S. aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise, carrying fighter aircraft capable appropriate to impose an air exclusion zone, could also be called in reinforcements.

It currently meets in the northern Red Sea, according to the Navy Web site. The Libyan opposition was opposed to intervention Rejecting "any foreign interference and military operation," a spokesman of the Revolutionary Committee of Benghazi asserts that "the rest of Libya will be released by the Libyan people.

We rely on the Army to liberate Tripoli. " "If anyone can help the Libyans to get rid of the Gaddafi regime, it will be appreciated. But there is a national consensus to Libya to consider any direct foreign intervention would be accepted on the ground," insisted his part Ambassador Deputy Libya to the UN, Ibrahim Dabbashi.

The dangers of a ground operation in such a context, the prospect of landing troops on Libyan soil is somewhat unrealistic. Asked on TF1, Alain Juppe has clearly expressed its reservations, worrying about "the reaction of the Arab street, the Arab populations throughout the Mediterranean." "The United States, strategically bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan, have no interest in engaging in a new nest," said Le Monde.

General Vincent Desportes en, former director of the War College. "As Colin Powell said, when you walk into a store china and you break something, you own debris. The only way to not stay there, is do not go." Bbc. en

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