Remember the 2003? The Iraqi information minister Al Sahaf - with the Americans now a few kilometers away - continued to deny the reality on the field and stubbornly announced their defeat ... When compared to what you (or "you do not") tells about Libya today we could define him as a realist.
A few days ago an episode occurred that radically changed the cards on the table in the North African country. Saif al-Islam Mu'ammar Gaddafi, the second son of the deposed (and murdered), was released after nearly six years in prison Saddam.
The news, officially, has not disturbed anyone. The indictments against him by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity committed in the 2011 were highlighted in the press. These accusations did not lead to any trial, if not in absentia - with a death sentence in the 2015. Since Tripoli already did not have the authority and strength even to verbalize a parking ban, Saif Gaddafi was held in mothballs in Zintan, a rival faction in Tripoli and friend of Tobruk, waiting for better times.
The manifestations of jubilation triggered by the liberation between our diplomatic staff will probably not have attracted attention. Living overpaid in an armored compound without reliable contacts with the country in which it serves, is a tradition for Italians. We have also verified this in other countries. Too bad that then among the sources of ours intelligence diplomatic ones have a special weight ...
Euphoria for the release of Gheddafi junior has been witnessed to us in almost the whole country. Surely it would have been impossible or at least circumscribed for a family member of the Saddam in the 2011, but after six years everything is different. It is because - as our sources in Libya testify - every promise of peace, prosperity and development has been disregarded. The "bel suol d'amore" has turned into a failed nation:
- on the political level, because after six years it has still not managed to give itself a unitary government;
- on the economic level, because the purchasing power of a population that welcomed workers from all over the continent has collapsed and now sees them huddled even by the simple impossibility of returning home (800.000 potential refugees waiting to be embarked);
- on a social level, because the new generations have no prospects and are increasingly hostage to violence and drugs ("something unthinkable at the time of Gaddafi", We are witnessed).
A worrying novelty, unpublished but eloquent, is the propensity of the Libyans themselves to leave the homeland.
All this is the result of the "correct" policy of those who overthrew a regime to deliver a people who - without a ferocious dictator - have returned to being a ragtag tribe.
Hatred and rancor are feelings towards those who have deluded and then betrayed. Contempt and disappointment towards Europe and the West in general, are now more than creeping feelings.
débâcle general? Quite the contrary.
Countries like France that have played a shrewd game in Libya and have chosen the right player will earn a lot from what they have sown.
The only ones who put us and put our face back were us. For Italy things (or business if you prefer) could and should have been better.
The only thing they had asked us not to do was to be a passacarte of other people's interests (v.articolo).
No sooner said than done.
In a Libya divided between hundreds of factions and no government, we have succeeded in transforming General Haftar, the only man capable of realizing the unity of the Amazon, into a rival.
Half of the country that supports it has just made a decisive move: collect the consent of the disappointed Libya who looks back with regret.
"An agreement was sought for the elections". This is the result and the only strategy that our "democratic intelligentsia" has been able to give birth.
The others, however, have not been watching: Haftar plus Gaddafi make the 90% of the votes.
We lost.
(photo: ICC)
