Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Arab nations turning on Qaddafi?

ARAB SPRING? The members of the Arab League called on the “international community” to do something to save Libyans from Muammar Qaddafi – who had not long ago served as the president of the Arab League. So now members of the “international community” -- Europeans and Americans -- are doing the work, spending the money and shedding the blood necessary to save Libyans. And what are the members of the Arab League doing? Complaining, of course:

Despite the so-called “Arab Spring” and the 22-state Arab League’s backing of the U.N.-authorized no-fly zone over Libya, no Arab nation participated in Saturday’s military intervention and none are publicly supporting it.

In fact, the head of the Arab League criticized the international strikes today, saying they caused civilian deaths. …

So where are the Arabs? Staying in the background while letting the West do the work, according to a wide cross-section of Middle East political and policy experts interviewed today by AOL News. …

Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a former U.S. Treasury terrorism analyst said that the Arab League is “filled with leaders not unlike Gadhafi.”

“To truly support a mission like this would be antithetical to their existence,” he said.
From: Foundation for Defense of Democracies

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