France has been most untypical and un-Gaullist in recognising the side that has now been defeated in Libya, at least without a French intervention in its support. They do have a history of following these things through. They fought on in Lebanon even after Reagan had withdrawn the United States Marine Corps. And then look at Africa.
Might that unilateral recognition prove as calamitous as Germany's unilateral recognition, in 1991, of the independence of the former Hapsburg provinces of Croatia and Slovenia? The disastrous dismemberment of Yugoslavia has still not yet come to an end. Where will this end? When will this end? Will this end, ever, at all?
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Are you not pleased to see the old British ally of Cyrenaica back, complete with the old flag?
ReplyDeleteBut we have dropped that ball. We have ceded our influence to the French. We have only ourselves to blame.
ReplyDeleteThis is going to be a very odd situation indeed. Not surprisingly, the leaders of the West failed to understand the internal dynamics of Libya and assumed that everyone there hates Gaddafi. Another miscalculation.
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