I absolutely do NOT see any implication, nor any power vacuum, after Gadhafi's fall. This kind of talk has become typical rehash of political analysts that lack any better analysis or political opinion.

The Libyan rebels have lost hundreds of comrades in the 5 months of the fighting, but those losses have taught them good battlefield lessons that have turned them now into an effective and high morale fighting force. And their vision is a free Libya - not a fratricidal adventure.

Who could have imagined when the Egyptian uprising started against Hosni Mubarak that those explosive demonstrations would have spread the seeds of rebellion across the Arab world? Egypt has always been a pivotal state in the Arab world since its late leader Gamal Abdel Nasser inspired a high spirit of Arab nationalism across Arabia, but the spark of a revolution in Egypt that spew cinders across Arabia and lit the spirit of the Arabs to rise against their tyrants may be the the most important development of the 21st Century. And this may not have happened without the explosion of the Internet, the social networks, and the commonality of cell phones that helped people connect and mass for a common cause.

What we see now in the Arab world is the explosion of oppressed people seeking the equality that was denied to them by unscrupulous rulers and despots. Aristotle argued 2.300 years ago that “sedition [revolution] is always to be found in inequality,” and “the passion for equality is always the cause of sedition.” John F. Kennedy affirmed that view when he stated that “Those whom make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” Mubarak and Gadhafi thought that they had built a family dynasty that could withstand any revolt. But their regimes crumbled under the massive protests that spread like a tsunami and flattened their corrupt regimes and internal security institutions.

Now the Assad dynasty in Syria and the Saleh dynasty in Yemen are battered by waves of public discontent and they are expected to sink – unless their people attain equality too! And in the recent years the people of Kyrgyzstan had chased out of the country two despotic presidents, Askar Akayev and Kumanbek Bakiyev. The rest of the few despots still remaining around the world had better take notice. Nikos Retsos, retired professor