Washington Coming To It’s Senses On Libya?

By Editorial Staff on Jul 26, 2011 with Comments 0

British Foreign Secretary William Hague today said: “What happens to Gaddafi is ultimately a question for the Libyans.”

Hague echoes the same about-face that’s been voiced in the last week through many NATO capitals, starting with Paris, then followed by Rome, Washington and now Britain.

It’s no coincidence that these countries are speaking from the same script. It’s also no coincidence that Hague’s words are almost verbatim what last week South African President Jacob Zuma said while standing next to British Prime Minister David Cameron, who was visiting South Africa.

Also no coincidence that in an interview published in The Wall Street Journal yesterday, Mustafa al-Jalil, the leader of the “rebels” and al-Gaddafi’s former justice minister, told The Journal that the “rebels” were willing to allow al-Gaddafi and his family to live in Libya. They would have to surrender all power and Benghazi was to determine the conditions under which they would be monitored. Astute observer can tell that Jalil, who hasn’t condemned “rebel” atrocities, including the ethnic cleansing of Misurata’s Black Libyans reported in The Journal on June 21, isn’t in a position to determine al-Gaddafi’s future. Otherwise, he would have been conducting the interview with The Jou