By Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
"The "enlightened" West has just sent a message to the rebelling Libyan people; Muammar Gaddafi's forces will have to dissolve you into a sea of blood before we decide to do anything. And even if we do, it may be too late. Sorry.
As for the African king of kings, he just had to slightly step on the gas to overtake those stone pillars of bureaucratic inertia - the United Nations, the European Union, the Arab League; now he's on a roll, after Ajdabiya has practically fallen, only 150 kilometers away from Benghazi along a virtually empty desert road. Liberated eastern Libya is sheikh, rattled and rolled.
Gaddafi called the West's bluff - and he's winning...."
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