Italy and Spain in favor of intervention in Libya

The countries of Italy and Spain were in favor of an expansion of the range of the coalition that is fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Assistance should also be extended to the territory of Libya, left to itself by Western powers after the fall of Gaddafi. For now, however, it is a mere statement of principle, which has an important diplomatic, but they are not dealt with the practical means of intervention, postponed to later decisions. It will be important to define the legal basis of the intervention with the legitimate government of Libya, but this plan already has some contradictory aspects. The government elected democratically had to find refuge in Benghazi, while in Tripoli took office a government of a religious, albeit moderate. Both have stated that actions on their territory will be considered hostile acts; but not recognizing each other, this warning can be understood in both directions, that is capable of causing the reaction of one of the parties involved in the agreement ninth. The best solution would be to persuade the two governments to find a synthesis and form a single executive, a road, which would also allow the Libyan country to present a single interlocutor for the international community. From the legal point of view to Benghazi it is the legitimate executive, but does not have the military force to impose what came out at the polls. The government took office in Tripoli has a greater military capacity, but does not offer sufficient guarantees for the likely proximity to the Islamic militias that are part of those who manage the traffic of human beings. Meanwhile the situation in Libya is increasingly dangerous for the West, because of the increasing presence of the Islamic state, which, finally, European countries seem to have become aware. For intervention in Libya, in addition to the agreement of the government or local governments, the intention is to promote a resolution of the United Nations Security Council; on this optimism is not granted as China and Russia, after the intervention against Gaddafi, approved by the Security Council with their abstention, they had expressed regret for allowing military action, which had thrown the country into chaos. The position of Italian and Spanish, but not part of a concern for the fate of the Libyan country, as for the pressure at which the Mediterranean countries, especially the Italian, are subjected to the constant pressure of illegal migration. It is a real weapon to subject Europe and the West to a constant state of stress, which results in conflicts between member countries of the European Union and in the domestic politics of individual nations. These methods were the same as that used Gaddafi with the same purposes and that now the caliphate, but not limited to, replication with similar results. The immediate interest of the European countries of the Mediterranean is to stop or limit traffic migration and how would pass through the destruction of the barges. This aspect does not take account of the need to stabilize the country Libyan factor far more important than the destruction of the means of transport, with a view to longer term and necessary to the improvement of regional balance. For this we need a military involvement that the Atlantic Alliance can not guarantee by itself without the direct participation of neighboring countries. The requirement is that, similar to the conflict with the Islamic state in Syria and Iraq, to ​​fight on the ground and guard the territory, but, in the country of Libya, there are fighters Shiites and Kurds to play this role. The practical aspects are more difficult: with the sole participation in the Air Force, possibly supported by naval forces, you can not ward off the threat of the caliphate, but it seems unlikely that European states could decide in a positive way for a military participation so massive; Yet the needs of intervention that are more urgent because the situation is increasingly worse. If the agreement between Rome and Madrid to think about intervention in Libya appears to be a positive sign, the real risk is that there late, because they are postponed to a future defined the possible means of intervention, further proof of the need for political guidance only and a common military force for the European Union.