For once the British and French find themselves singing from the same song sheet. David Cameron, despite all his other faults, stuck his neck out and called for a no fly zone. The Americans our historical allies, tried to rein him in, afraid to commit themselves. At the same time, President Sarkozy was breaking with France's European ally, Germany, to call for the same thing. Whatever the rights and wrongs of this Libyan adventure, and whatever the motivations, it is surely a historical moment for British French relations.
What disappoints me is no similar consensus or agreement has been reached or even discussed for Ivory Coast, where more than 100 people were killed or injured in a recent attack on a market. But the I shouldn't be surprised nothing has been done for Darfur, and nothing was done during the Rwandan Genocide. It seems to me that when oil is involved, innocent civilians are easier to protect. President Obama said, after the UN resolution, that America couldn't stand by as innocent civilians were killed, he seems to have forgotten his catch phrase, 'Yes, we can'.
The real winners of this campaign will be the oil, arms and construction industries.
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