The United Nations is pushing for economic sanctions, a military blockade, and war crime prosecutions in Libya. It is reported that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has regained control of Libya’s capital city, Tripoli, though violence continues to rage in other cities. Gaddafi is apparently arming his civilian supporters in an effort to regain complete control over the whole country.
The United States government, which supported Gaddafi before the uprisings, has turned on him completely. Which leads one to ask the question, what would have been the U.S. attitude towards the other dictators in the Middle East that we have been propping up for the past 60 years if they too would have used violence to quell the uprisings in their countries? It must be noted that if the U.N. enacts sanctions against Libya it will only hurt the people.
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