The situation in North Africa is turning into a classical nightmare. The idea of an international led military intervention in Libya was not only legally, in the sense of international law, wrong but it was unrealistic. Military interventions, without a clarity of purpose, which is clearly defined and its objectives clearly understood, is a road to disaster. No military intervention or invasion or act can exist without its political rationale and in the case of Libya, the reason for intervention was not humanitrian but to seek a regime change itself.
This was a mistake. The conflict inside Libya was a revolutionary war, a war marked by a struggle for political power within a nation, and the world by picking sides in that war has effectively become a partisan in the Libyan civil war itself. The west, notably the United States, has a habit of misreading the political intentions of conflicts in far away lands and seeing them through the narrow prisms of its own interests and it will pay, along with the world, the price for this misadventure of folly.
Also, but more importantly, the United Nations by allowing the military intervention into Libya has just annulled nearly 500 years of international law and treaty precedents and has effectively destroyed the Treaty of Westphalia, which laid the foundations for international law and the independence of state sovereignty.
The Treaty of Westphalia established the principle for non-intervention by state in the affairs of another state and the United Nations, which was founded on the idea of preventing one state from invading another state, has created an international legal precedent that allows any nation to invade any other nation and has, in fact and deed, mooted its own raison d' etre.
The day United Nations Resolution 1973 was passed, was the day when the United Nations itself ceased to exist as an organization dedicated towards maintaining global peace and for upholding the rights of nations from invasion and foreign interventions and in doing so, it went against its own charter; which called for states acting in uniformity to prevent one state from intervening in the affairs of another and instead became an organization acting in conformity with other nations to invade a country!
This was a mistake. The conflict inside Libya was a revolutionary war, a war marked by a struggle for political power within a nation, and the world by picking sides in that war has effectively become a partisan in the Libyan civil war itself. The west, notably the United States, has a habit of misreading the political intentions of conflicts in far away lands and seeing them through the narrow prisms of its own interests and it will pay, along with the world, the price for this misadventure of folly.
Also, but more importantly, the United Nations by allowing the military intervention into Libya has just annulled nearly 500 years of international law and treaty precedents and has effectively destroyed the Treaty of Westphalia, which laid the foundations for international law and the independence of state sovereignty.
The Treaty of Westphalia established the principle for non-intervention by state in the affairs of another state and the United Nations, which was founded on the idea of preventing one state from invading another state, has created an international legal precedent that allows any nation to invade any other nation and has, in fact and deed, mooted its own raison d' etre.
The day United Nations Resolution 1973 was passed, was the day when the United Nations itself ceased to exist as an organization dedicated towards maintaining global peace and for upholding the rights of nations from invasion and foreign interventions and in doing so, it went against its own charter; which called for states acting in uniformity to prevent one state from intervening in the affairs of another and instead became an organization acting in conformity with other nations to invade a country!
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