I think its important for the people to decide their future...its high time these brutal leaders go!!!!

as recent history helps to speculate the outcomes of NATO assistance to America for helping the like minded people to oust the "oppressorss" in their respective countries like Iraq and Afghanistan .it seems that such type of any muscular intervention is highly displeasing and may be having long lasting effects on the socio-cultural life of the intervened countries. but Libyan people seem mature enough to decide for themselves and with the moral support of the world choose the path of action to bring out the best amongst them as leader,

Qadhafi does not hesitate to kill his own people. So many other dictators and democracies have done this across the world. Yet, Qadhafi is being stopped, not only because of the recent act but also because of a long line of violence against other countries and his own people. What is the Oarganization of Islamic Countries doing? Why can they not help ordinary citizens of Islamic countries? They are quite wealthy? Are the leaders in it afraid of people's demand for freedom?

The Arab world should take notice from Pakistan. Protests and violence never changed the condition of the people, unless they change themselves first. Otherwise 1 form of tyranny is replaced with another form and it quickly morphs into a vicious circle.

There are certain fundementals facts which are being suppressed in the Libyan debate. Setting aside the fact the Quadhafi is being demonised by the media. If one question Why, they will discover that Quadhafi is a vocal denouncer and critique of European and now American Imperilistic designs. After the Regan bombing of Tripoli, Quadhafi had thought he would be left alone to build Libya in his perception. Quadhafi spent countless dollars on educatiing his population, improve living standards with Western help in management and planning. However, Quadhafi had some fundemental basic problems, his country was a disunited tribal society. This opening left a gap for those powers to maniplate and so they did. One of the apparent decision Quadhafi too that seems to upset the west is that be began to re-direct the sale of oil to the East maninly China. This seems to be one of the reasons that enrage the West to take action. Now the West colabarated with other Arabs states which Quadhafi had always distrust and see them as treacherous gang up with the Imperial west to destroy Libya and steal Libyan oil using the tribe of Benghazi as the Govt. Quadhafi see this is interpret this move as a duplication of the West in Iraq. As noticed now even Abu Mousa of the Arab League has regretted he agreed with the Imperial powers involvement and critise them as going too far. He is now seen by fellow Egyptians where he will be competing for the Presidency as a big foolish man. He will be despised by his fellow Egyptians. Recalled, Egypt was a former colony of Britian. Many States critise the unrestrained bombing of Libya. Now, they are asking for the removal of Quadhafi from power. No one knows where this will end. If Quadhafi survives this or not,the Russian Parliament has already indicated that Libya will be looking at ways of constructing a Nuclear bomb. Nothing it seems will stop that option as it is a second time Libya is being bommed. The other point is that there is a global competition for raw materials with Europeans, US, China and India in competition. The main mineral in focus is OIL. This competion will increase in intensitity and this Libyan war is just another to garner control of OIL resouces. Iraq, is in process, the whole country is destroyed as promised by Bush 2, that they will bomb it into the dark ages and so it is. The same remedy awaits Libya. However, the US is virtually Bankrupt as the Congress seems to indicate or may be the cost of harnessing Libya war may be too costly. But, things can turnaround, who knows. It must be understood that it is the Mighty Global Corporations who operate the US Govt. including Britain, the Europeans, China India including the US military Indudstrial complex, a trillion dollar operation. Recall, Black Water now metamorphised into Xe. Corporations sights are focused on profit, anything take the back seat. They operate in unison, notice the eco-damage in the Gulf of Mexico. Notice, since the Bushes Presidency, they have gutted the US Banks, the US economy and push the burden to repay on the American people. The Media are Corporations who are hands in glove in this. The Us ingagement in Afghanstan is a business enterprise for resources, and the leader Karzai cannot get enough. So the bottom line is how the Imperialsts can work around the International legal order to garner Libyan oil. How? Sensible minds will discover demonising Indria Ghandi, Ho-Chi Min Castro,Saddam now Quadhafi will not work all the time. Recalled what was done to India resulting in the division, there are many yet who are blind and cannot see the reasons. India and Pakistan are like a bird tyrying to fly on one wing. Why was it done? Surely, it was not for love, it was economics. A reasoned rebuttal will be appreciated.

human beings do change. sometimes, as in the centuries before the emergence of internet, changes were indeed slow. for centuries together, there were practically very little changes. now see a man from the smallest of the small country Qatar, taking the leading role of changing the arab world! these changes are for good not only for the arabs, but for the whole people on earth. there is no place for dictators in the present wold, including the kings and the shiekhs. sooner than they will be thrown out. similarly there is no place for military in determining the future of humanity. if they want they can help the transition. arabs are human beings, like free people any where in the world. let us therefore do everything in our power to help these helpless people seeking change.

I dont understand , why America intervenes in every nation's internal issues . let the people of libya decide what is better for them . America should be kept aloof from their internal affair . the nato-encroachment is illicit in all spheres .

what is interesting is the silence of OIC - the custodian of muslims of the world..here the people of tunisia, egypt, libya, bharain, syria, Iran, Algeria, yemen, jordan are protesting peacefully asking for right to choose their destination and what do they get in return.. brutal assault.. the people who got killed brutally in all these countries are muslims.. but still there is no emergency summit meeting nor any statements nor protests in the streets of muslim nations.. tomorrow if a couple of protestors were to get killed in Kashmir or some non-muslim country OIC will rise like a dragon and spit fire.. why this silence on the happenings in muslim world.. does that mean that muslims in islamic nations have no right to fight for their rights? the "despotic rulers" have a natural right to kill their citizens..??? the whole world is watching these brutal killings day in day out.. but it seems like the islamic world is not aware of these happenings if we have to go by the silence from these countries..

Any help provided to people living under a NON democratic setup to become democratic is a good thing. This help by definition will be of a violent nature and will involve war equipment since a NON democratic, autocratic setup will not be one that allows free press or change through peaceful means.

They did not have any other option, Qadhafi wanted to keep the country hostage as long as he could. He used excessive power against his own people. OIC is not able to handle these problems or they never thought of having a strategy to deal with these situation, partly due to the fact it is an organisation which represents the elite not the people's voice! Obviously the US or NATO has spent almost a billion dollar so far, they would like to see a "friendly" government there. It is going to be the Libyan people to decide their future and for the children, what type of democracy they want? I am sure people of Libya will come out of this crisis and prosper as a democratic nation.

The west have their own agenda.They chose to go to Libya but not Yemen and Bahrain where more brutality is going on.Yes all these kings and the should go.Enough is enough.

The people aren't fighting for their freedom. It's the west. The west has no business interfering in Libya. Brutal though Gaddafi may be, he is still a Libyan, and I would rather have him than have foreigners interfering in my country.

I am no fan of Gaddafi and for that matter any oppressive form of government. But this is an internal matter and MUST be decided by the people themselves. There is no moral or ethical responsibility on the US to intervene and arm the opposition. This is a dangerous trend and one that will lead to ultimate chaos. Juts think for one instance if tomorrow all wars in the world were ended and there was complete peace and harmony all over the earth, then which country's economy will be worst affected???? And you will have the answer. How can that country then want peace to take over?? It is not in their interest. So people of the world and particularly the middle east governments must wake up and take their destiny into their own hands.

As things stand now in Libya, the country stands divided, the rebels (?) are supported by foreign powers. Those of my friends supporting the rebels and the role of international powers must stop and think for a while what if the same international community decides to interfere in support of the insurgents and separatists in Pakistan? What will be Pakistan's reaction? Will we find any support from any body for our cause, I think not. So we should not support the outside interference in the internal affairs of Libya. If Qaddafi was wrong to prosecute his opponents / opponents of his revolution, then by that count other governments can also be prosecuted for whatever they are doing. These actions of foreign powers are an eye opener to all of us, if this trend is not stopped today then it is not far when we will be in the news just like Libya! And let me tell you We don't have the means and the will to take on them!

It is laughable that a decaying country like Britain, whose military weakness (and inadequate logistics and supplies) was painfully apparent in Afganistan and Iraq, is getting involved in yet another war in Libya. It is easy to start a war by firing cruise missiles from a ship, but it wont end there. What these Western nations do is to wreck the civilian infrastructure of Libya, and make life miserable. Then they profit by "reconstruction activity" contracts given to corporate entities.

At this instance Western intervention in Libya is highly hypocritical. They are really interested in Libyan oil and not in establishing democracy there.

Mustafa, are you not being unfair by saying people are not fighting for their freedom. People have fought against tanks and aircraft with simple guns and given their lives. Nobody even knows the fate of those who thought peaceful protest was possible.

Lets not get into our programmed opposition of west no matter what. Please have respect and honor the sacrifices the brave people made knowing they were up against a rutheless maniac. Remember there is not a single foreign boot on the ground. Every single fighter is Libyans. Whose side are we on? Qaddafi the playboy, or the martyrs for freedom.

I am not the supporter of Ghaddafi, but what is emerging with the current situation in Libya is that rebel are the creation of the USA and other Crusaders. You can judge yourself when the Gaddafi forces was about to erode the rebels USA hastenly invaded and attacked on Libyan forces. Its all a part of 21st century hidden crusade,,, which the european & american forces has started against Muslims in the veil of liberalism. Why dont these internaional forces inavde in Israil or other countries to liberate the muslims in Palestine or Kashmir.....

A food for thought. Why other Arab countries where similiar revolts took place and are taking place, were not intervened. When their dictators are, if not of the same magnitude, but doing the same brutal and inhumane actions against their masses?Answers can be the rich resources of Libyan oil.Or our superpower of the unilateral World America,trying to give a message to the world that the coalition forces of NATO are always the saviors and guardians of the all the nations of the world.But why the US themselves, are not taking active part in this military campaign? Simple, they have suffered losses of great magnitude in Iraq and Afghanistan, and have learned one good lesson along the way that sometimes it's better to use Allied forces and stay aloof:)

The whole dilemna is muslims are being killed no one fails to realise that even if its ghadafi forces or the rebels utimately muslim community on a broader perspective is losing civil war within libya will never end

Intervention is arguably a good idea when it saves lives. But if you think about regime change, it does seem to be a complex issue because of the possible wariness on the part of the prevailing government. How might it exacerbate their reaction towards opposition? I have to read more to answer my own question........

well there is no about it that Muslims rulers are autocrat and govern the regime like Mafia.. but we should be rationale before doing any act. i read all the comments and i have been closely watching news since these incidents are happening ..... i just want to raise some questions... 1- why USA and NATO is so keen to resolve the issue by hook or by crook only because of UN .... if yes then where are hundreds of resolution which passed by UN against ISRAEL... ???? 2- They attacked IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN, where is Weapon of Mass destruction (WMD) and where is OSAMA BIN LADEN .... don't you think these countries are better place to live now.......?? can you imagine the cost paid or have been paying by peoples of these countries....??? 3-can we change the regime by force ....????? 4-Is democracy the only tool to create disturbance and increase conflicts among Muslims( totally based on ethnic or sectarian)...??????????? 5-its all about the economic control.. what do you think....???

It is common belif or understanding that democracy is better for people and it offers more opportunities for prosperity. I assure you-this is neither a religion of God and nor it offers a better way of life, world is controlled by the imperialist powers. Obama doctrine-interfere countries internal affairs-invoke the emotions of people, let them to bear arms, let army and tribes to defects-let the government of that country to suppress the rebels. Then chaos will follow, get UNO white ticket, destroy the infrastructure, support the rebels, and place a economic blocked, stir internal conflicts, if nothing work, then revisit UNO, get a red ticket and for NATO to landed in a country. No country, no government either safe in a Muslim world or any choice but to wait for their fate. You watch one-by-one every Muslim country who will not follow USA and NATO script will be pushed to mid evil ages. There were many tool are in the kit of diplomacy-none of them was used-expect Gadhaffi must go!! Libya oil fields will be under full control of Italy and France and country assets will be used to arming the rebels.

What about Bahrain? Why not start discussion on Saudi intervention in Bahrain? That will never happen because we the Muslims cannot commit atrocities, it has to be the crusaders only. Lets be clear about one thing, Western action in Libya reprehensible and motivated by self interests was preceded by Arab League resolution condemning Libyan Government and asking the international community to protect rebel forces by imposing a no fly zone.

in all over the world the new coming changing is the against the international imperialism and the aggressive forces in all over the world but i thank that leak of the revolutionary leadership this kind of mass movements will be faile to bring the real changing in their countries i thank the rebel should have no revolutionary aganda and with revolutionary aganda we can not hope to real changing in the Libya.

Bombing Libya in defence of regieme's attacks on its citizens is a classic case of Western selctive vigilantism. If I am wrong then if it is Libya, why not Behrain or for that matter Yemen?

Libya & its leader have never excited me from the Pakistani perspective. I being narrow minded would have joined others celebrating the bombing in Libya, but no it is not the case inspite of all the reservations I have for the Libyan regime I will not support the military action being un-leashed in Libya. No sovereign country of the can tolerate armed indiscipline by its people against its government. The un-fortunate bombing must have done more damage then inflicted otherwise. They say that they have averted massacre in Libya true but at what cost, through another massacre, destruction of properties, palace bombing. No, this is not fair. Those who are thinking that the down fall of the Libyan regime would bring democracy are in fact erring. Nothing will change. Sham government will be formed and the woe of the general public will continue un-abated. Stop the fire power at once and let the Libyans decide for them selves what is good for them. The unrest in Libya is an internal matter of Libya, not anybody's business.

RIGHT ON!

From what I'm reading, the UN policy is to intervene when there is a war. But how to create change in the ME is a continuing question and I agree with those who say it isn't all going to happen so fast. War is never pleasant but there are some people who seek it.