There will be no tears for the end of the Gaddafi regime, if that is indeed what we are watching.
The Gaddafi regime was a brutal dictatorship and it deserved to be overthrown just as much as that of Ben Ali’s in Tunisia or Mubarak’s in Egypt.
But, unlike the defeat of Ben Ali or Mubarak, the end of the Gaddafi has not been brought about mainly by a popular revolutionary rising.
It has been brought about by a military victory in a civil war in which the rebel side has become largely dependent on western military fire power.
John Rees
