The Bravery of the Libyan People

Gaddafi, dressed in his usual safari/bedouin chic clothing just finished an hour rant where he declared war on the Libyan people. He refuses to acknowledge that the protesters are rational, sane, Libyan citizens. Rather he says that they are drunks, druggies, and gang members wanting to devastate Libya. Gaddafi and others of his ilk, the name Robert Mugabe comes to mind cannot dissociate the nation from themselves. An attack on them, is an attack on the nation.

Gaddafi says he is prepared to fight until the end, and to die a "martyr." I have often questioned his sanity and his grip on reality, but this is too much even for him. He has ordered his forces to bomb, slaughter, and exterminate the population. To put down the opposition, the protesters by any means necessary.

There is an emergency meeting of the UN security council, of the Arab League, but it is all for naught. All useless bits of paper and proclamations that mean nothing. I'm aghast at the images coming from youtube courtesy of mobiles. Bodies strewn across cars and streets, blood running and in some cases flowing. There is a complete black out of news and information so nothing can be confirmed. But I know, like many others that the death toll is in the hundreds if not thousands. That there are countless injured, and I know that the killing may very well continue until as Saif Al Islam Gaddafi said "the last bullet....the last woman and child."

I wish I had faith in the global community, that someone, anyone could stop this massacre, the killing. Don't make the mistake in thinking the Libyan people need a hero, they are their own hero.

What is needed is sanity, because if nothing else the other despots were at least sane...