With the joint statement of the American and French presidents, and British Prime Minister, the military operations in Libya appear, without any debate on this issue in the Parliament of these three countries, to be entering a new phase: it is no longer a question of protecting civilian lives at risk, as required by Resolution Number 1973 of the UN Security Council, but to get rid of Gadhafi.
Two seemingly unrelated topics have occupied and still occupy our minds: the global financial crisis and the nuclear accident in Japan. In fact, they have numerous similarities.
Once again, a problem we thought to be local is becoming global: you liked Californian subprime? You will love Japanese nuclear waste…
Some leaders, including those of France, embarked themselves full of innocent enthusiasm in an uncertain conflict against the mad dictator of Libya, without answering three questions that would have deserved to be publicly discussed…
We must act today differently regarding risk management.
What happens when everything moves around us and we remain standing still? We end up being uprooted, dislocated, carried away by the current, scattered in floating fragments.
The Tunisian people have just taken a major step. They are now in charge of their destiny. They must have all the tools to succeed. France, Europe, the democratic world must do everything to support them.
What is happening in Egypt, after what happened in Tunisia, is sending us back to a very old question that we have been living at least since the 1956 Hungarian Revolution: should democracies intervene to help a people who is fighting dictatorship?
Nothing was more expected than the jasmine revolution.
Nothing could be less predictable than the date of its outbreak.
