The Queensberry Rules of warfare died when warfare changed into terrorism and so, when Canada debates its continuing role in Libya in the House of Commons, it should adopt the stance of death to Muammar Gaddafi, said the Toronto Sun in Canada in an editorial. Excerpts: If the goal in Libya is to free its citizens of this madman, then let's take the madman out, and drop all the diplomatic niceties about whether this is the international equivalent of hitting below the belt. Target him, and eliminate him. Thus far, there have been more than 10,000 NATO sorties conducted over Libya — many of them by our CF-18s but not one of those bombs has dropped on Gadhafi, who, despite promise of sanctuary by Turkey, is hanging in like a bad rash. Let's be honest. NATO painted itself into a corner by wholly agreeing to the UN's security resolution that all targets being bombed must be linked to attacks on the Libyan people by pro-Gaddafi forces. While we agree that there should be no ground war launched in Libya, we believe the UN's mandate to continue the air assaults until “all attacks or threats of attacks” on civilians have ceased is shortsighted — particularly if Gaddafi's head is the main target. As former UN ambassador Paul Heinbecker put it to us, “(NATO) has the authority to prosecute an air war, and if he's (Gaddafi) an integral part of the command structure (attacking) civilians, then he's a legitimate target.” We could not agree more. Gadhafi is evil, and always will be evil. The sooner he is gone forever, the sooner Libya will begin to see a brighter future unfold. This should be Canada's only position. __
