People of Libya have done immense sacrifice and had to undergo untold hardship to remove a despot (next in the line is mass murderer of Syria) and gain freedom. This blogger like anyone else in the world is happy for Libyans (at one point there used to be lots of Keralites in Libya, I even knew about a girl who was named Libya!!). The war in Libya is far from over. After capturing Gadaffi and putting the criminals on trial the Libyan people will have to worry about the extent of foreign intervention. There is a neo colonial agenda that is a serious cause of concern. The reason why NATO has more say than UNPKF. People of Libya have a serious cause of worry.
Writes Stratfor, the geopolitics thinktank in Forbes magazine "For the United Kingdom, Libya offers a promise of energy exploitation. It is not a country with which London has a strong client-patron relationship at the moment, but one could develop if Muammar Gaddafi were removed from power. For France, Tripoli already is a significant energy exporter and arms customer. Paris' interest in intervening is also about intra-European politics … [French President Nicolas] Sarkozy has a history of using aggressive foreign relation moves to gain or maintain popularity at home."
Writes Stratfor, the geopolitics thinktank in Forbes magazine "For the United Kingdom, Libya offers a promise of energy exploitation. It is not a country with which London has a strong client-patron relationship at the moment, but one could develop if Muammar Gaddafi were removed from power. For France, Tripoli already is a significant energy exporter and arms customer. Paris' interest in intervening is also about intra-European politics … [French President Nicolas] Sarkozy has a history of using aggressive foreign relation moves to gain or maintain popularity at home."
We will have to take these views very seriously.
