The crisis in Libya should be resolved by politics not force

COLONEL Gaddafi is just one of the many despots in the Middle East.

After getting rid of Gaddafi, the admitted aim of the military intervention, who will replace him?

Another dictator? What do we know of the opposition?

The West has supported and armed many of these despots. Are we going to see the removal of the removal of these men? In Saudi Arabia for example?

We saw American and British, and a few others, intervene in lraq. Millions of casualties. Saddam removed and executed. Yet the situation in lraq is, for the majority of its people, worse now than under Saddam.

And of course there is Afghanistan.

When will they ever learn?

A resolution of the Libya crisis must be solved by political means by the people there and not by outside military actions.

From: Hilary Andrews, Wentworth Court, Nursery Lane, Leeds.

It seems as though we have become involved in another war that doesn’t concern us and with cultures we don’t understand. Why do we try to impose our idea of democracy on the world?

Not every country wants to disrespect its elders, support people who don’t want to do a days work or allow prisoners and 18-year-olds to vote to decide our way of life.

Let’s look to our own country for a while and get it back on its feet before we start interfering with others.

From: Dai Woosnam, Woodrow Park, Scartho, Grimsby.

THE Libyan civil war sees rebels in Benghazi who are led by deserters from Gaddafi’s army, with stolen tanks and army trucks.

In hand-to-hand fighting, how will participants know who’s who?

Imagine a game of football if both teams wore the same strip? It would be a litany of misplaced passes. Chaos would result.

Now it is a given that we’d all like a world without war. But if there is going to be fighting, shouldn’t there be something in the Geneva Convention that insists that one side wears stripes, to the other’s hoops?

From: David Quarrie, Lynden Way, Acomb, York.

PM David Cameron has now taken Britain towards yet another war, this time in Libya. We can now assume he will send our military into Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe, Oman, the UAE and most of Africa, as their peoples are ruled by despots, dictators or autocracy.

We just never seem to learn from our mistakes.

From: Roger M Dobson, Ash Street, Cross Hills, Keighley.

WE have all known that our Prime Minister is very headstrong with fully fixed ideas on many subjects, but we must now ask if he has completely lost his marbles in getting us involved in the conflict against Colonel Gaddafi in Libya.

What on earth is it to do with Great Britain as to what happens to such an evil, dictator/madman in the Middle East? I thought that idiot-like decisions by our politicians finished when Tony Blair was got rid of.