Kadhafi doit partir! Mais où?

Un angle intéressant... Kadhafi s'accroche en attendant une "destination"...

Even before Saddam's capture -- within days of the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, in fact -- Gaddafi took steps to forestall the very situation he now finds himself in: facing NATO warplanes and Western demands that he relinquish power. At Gaddafi's direction, Libyan functionaries approached British and American officials with a stunning offer: the regime in Tripoli was voluntarily dismantling its chemical and nuclear weapons programs.

Foreign policy veterans who had worked in Democratic administrations expressed skepticism that this overture was related to the U.S. invasion, but Gaddafi apparently informed old Silvio Berlusconi otherwise. "I saw what happened in Iraq," Gaddafi reportedly told Italy's prime minister, "and I was afraid."

And so, Gaddafi gave up his WMD, and the Bush administration restored diplomatic relations with Libya, whose leader was no longer portrayed, in Ronald Reagan's memorable phrase, as the "mad dog of the Middle East." He had avoided Saddam's fate -- until now.

"Muammar Gaddafi clearly lost the confidence of his own people and the legitimacy to lead," President Obama said in a televised address 10 days after NATO airstrikes began targeting Gaddafi's troops. In London one day later, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton echoed those words -- and amplified on them: "Gaddafi has lost the legitimacy to lead, so we believe he must go. We're working with the international community to try to achieve that outcome." German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle chimed in, too: "One thing is quite clear and has to be made very clear to Gaddafi: His time is over. He must go."

But these demands beg the central question. Sure, it's easy enough to say he must go. But go where?

Sur le site de Real Clear Politics:http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/31/gaddafi_must_go__but_where_109406.html