Turkey opposes any NATO operation in Libya

[Bosonic]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - NATO member Turkey on Monday said it opposed growing international calls to impose a no-fly zone over Libya, saying such operation would be unhelpful and fraught with risk.

"Military intervention by NATO in Libya or any other country would be totally counter-productive," Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, whose country is the only Muslim member of NATO, told an international forum in Istanbul.

Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/03/14/us-libya-turkey-idUKTRE72D49D20110314

[dipsydoodle]

1. On the subject in general

Viewpoint: Libya intervention 'brings huge risks'

In Libya, a lethally unbalanced leader has decided not to reform his government or heed the calls of his public that he should have been term-limited out long ago, but instead has bombed, machine-gunned, and rolled tanks out against his own citizens.

A deadly, serious struggle is under way in Libya and throughout much of the Middle East and North Africa between ageing authoritarian regimes and their citizens who have had enough of institutionalised human degradation.

Americans and the "West" want to help; they want to stop those bombs falling on innocents from the sky and protect the brave protesters fighting hard for their rights and futures. Americans see their own narrative of revolution and throwing off tyranny in these on-going al-Jazeera and BBC streams.

But as noble as the notion of helping the Libyan opposition may feel and sound, the American impulse to help, to impose with allies a "no-fly zone", changes the narrative of protest and change in Libya and sets up a dynamic that could easily backfire on America's interests and reputation. It could also rob success from those seeking to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12708727

[David__77]

2. Absolutely. Only revolutionary warfare can lead to liberation.

As soon as intervention occurs, the whole game is changed.

[dipsydoodle]

3. That's how Cuba scored