Quote Originally Posted by JMA View Post
What are you saying? That Gaddafi should be allowed to stay in power to avoid any revenge based incidents happening after he is toppled?
No, I am advocating a regular handover just like we have seen in Egypt and Tunisia where the presidential family and some close associates are fired and/or prosecuted but the great majority of the party members just stay in their job. I think this is preferable above the massive cleansing in the style of the de-Baathisation policy we followed in Iraq or the firing of all Serbs in Kosovo. In both countries they don't even have regular electricity now.

We should not replace suppression by one group with suppression by another. Instead we should look for a formula in which everyone is represented - including the former oppressors.