Is it even possible that the Libyan conflict will end well? For Brazil’s Folha, columnist Joao Pereira Coutinho writes that whatever its intentions, there is a very strong likelihood that the latest Western quagmire has just begun.
For Folha, Joao Pereira Coutinho writes in part:
The first decade of the 21st century was marked by Western effort to combat terrorism by fundamentalists.
That’s why, at a minimum, it would be disastrous if the intervention in Libya, organized to remove a dictator like Qaddafi, were to eventually pave the way for a triumph by the Islamist opposition. These are the same people, who, we now know, have been providing jihadists battling Western troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The imposition of a no-fly zone over Libya is no mere preventive measure. It is a declaration of war with everything that implies: there is the possibility that Qaddafi will be overthrown and the Islamists will come to power. On the other hand, Qaddafi may survive the attacks and retaliate against civilians in Europe. Finally, Libya could descend into a long and bloody war and the West will, once again, be sucked in.
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