At this writing, foreign military operations in Libya have just begun. Few imagined that U.N. diplomacy could cope with exigent circumstances, but quick action was taken, in the face of the apparent necessity to protect the civilian population of Benghazi against columns sent to implement Gaddafi’s threat issued only hours earlier: “We will come zenga, zenga. House by house, room by room” … “We are coming tonight… We will have no mercy and no pity with them.”
There hasn’t been time to contemplate where it all leads. An Egypt-like peaceful popular revolution is not in the cards. Nor is a return to business as usual.
It is difficult to see any other outcome than a prologed international defense of Benghazi, ending in a de facto “two Libyas” outcome. You heard it here first. East Libya, anyone?
