Preventing Qaddafi from rebuilding the wall of fear that fell in Tunisia and Egypt is essential if the “Arab spring” is not to be succeeded by a new winter of discontent. What is now done in the sky over Libya – sanctioned by international law and, unlike in Iraq in 2003, with the ambivalent political support of the Arab League – is fundamental if the Arab revolutionaries are to take a positive view of the West.
除个性方面的因素外，还有地区环境因素在起作用。 防止卡扎菲重建在突尼斯和埃及已经倒塌的恐惧之墙是防止已经到来的“阿拉伯春天”继之以不满的严冬的关键因素。 目前的利比亚空袭对阿拉伯革命者积极看待西方至关重要，利比亚不仅受到国际法律的制裁，而且和2003年伊拉克不同的是，阿拉伯联盟对它的政治支持也充满了矛盾。