The Western interference in Libya – which is covered in an Arab tunic – is raising a number of doubts concerning its motives and objectives. This causes one to fear that the raising of these concerns might be considered as an attempt to defend Gaddafi's persistence in power, God forbid! First, the West (France and Britain on top of the interferers) is adopting specific standards for the air campaign against Libya, and claiming that the purpose of these standards is to protect the civilians who are asking for changing the oppressive and bloody regime; and to allow the Libyan people to speak freely concerning the regime that they want. In other words, the Western regimes that are interfering in Libya – in order to execute resolution 1975 – want to achieve the suitable conditions for the establishment of a democratic system in Tripoli. Clearly, these regimes are aspiring for the ousting of Gaddafi although the resolution does not indicate that. It is only natural that these Western standards with high aims should only receive credibility if they are applied in every [country] suffering from a bloody oppression and wherever there is a need for providing the right opportunities to apply democratic rules and to change the regime. Indeed, the selective and double-standard politics adopted against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi alone raise many questions as to their objectives, thus causing these politics to lose the moral motivation that is supposed to represent the reason for adopting them. This raises an inevitable debate on how convinced the opposition sides are – whose projects of change are supported by the West – with the necessary conditions for the achievement of the democratic process. For instance, how convinced are Gaddafi's opponents with democratic work, and where were these convictions when some of them were, in the near past, major elements of the regime and witnesses to its crimes? This does not mean that the Arab populaces are not destined, or not entitled to democracy. However, this means that changing the regime is one thing, and building the bases of democracy is another. The Western countries are responsible for overlooking the necessary conditions for building this kind of bases. These countries seem to be doing nothing but replacing a losing horse with a horse that is more likely to secure a victory at the end of the race. Thus, many questions were raised concerning the identity of the change that the American Administration had sponsored in Cairo and Tunisia, and that could have also ended in a severe blood spill and in a Libyan-style Western interference had the armies of the two countries failed to oust their presidents. The third element that calls for caution when it comes to the results of the campaign in Libya consists of the waves of sympathy with the regime that are produced as a result of the Western interference in our region. Indeed, the [Libyan] regime is turning into a Western target despite its lack of popularity domestically and internationally. The [Western] interference is providing the regime with the act of innocence that it needs in order to extend its lifetime. Such regimes only need to brandish the slogan of “crusades' invasion” in the face of the attacker's Cruise Missiles and F16 aircrafts in order to have masses pouring to take advantage of this slogan and to support the head of the dictatorship. Thus, the Al-Qaeda organization, the Iranian revolution Guide, and the Russian prime minister, are attacking the Western campaign against Libya in a quasi unified language in spite of their differences and in spite of their differences with Gaddafi himself (especially the Iranians). Is it not surprising that the only lesson that Vladimir Putin learned from the attacks against Libya is that there is a need to strengthen the Russian defense systems? One of the precautions for interference in such situations is that it could transform the executioner into a victim and the liberator into an occupier. This has been proven by the past adventure in Iraq. It is one of the dangers of the exportation of democracy via tanks and war planes.
