PJ: Conservatives in the US have suggested that President Obama "dithered" on action in Libya. Today, Senator John McCain stated that the President had waited too long to take action. But as the world watches, more leaders are expressing their respect for the international community and the UN for undergoing the process to secure a resolution that added "legitimacy" to any action by outside powers. If the US has taken the lead, as so many have suggested that they do in the role of international policeman, their action would have been condemned as aggressive and self-serving (claiming, as many usually do, that US action was solely an attempt take over the country for its oil). Any action that the US had undertaken without international support, especially the support of Arab nations, would have further damaged America's image in the region and around the world.
Hurriyet Daily News
Opposition leader in Turkey backs Libyan intervention
The leader of the main opposition party has expressed support for the international air operation in Libya while calling on the unrest-hit North African country to move toward a more democratic regime.
“No administration should exert pressure on its own people and shoot them. If the United Nations has passed such a resolution, then this [operation] has gained international legitimacy,” Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, leader of the Republican People’s Party, or CHP, told reporters Sunday.
“What we want is for this operation to be conducted without human casualties,” Kılıçdaroğlu said, adding that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s resistance makes that impossible.
“We are making a call to Gadhafi: Libya should rapidly move forward to a democratic regime. It should make statements in this direction,” he said, adding that the Turkish government’s softening stance on military intervention is “not wrong” in this framework.
Yaşar Topçu, leader of the ultranationalist Great Union Party, or BBP, has meanwhile urged the government not to allow the international coalition forces to use Turkey’s İncirlik air base to attack Libya.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=opposition-leader-backs-gov8217t-statements-on-libya-2011-03-20
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