Nato must complete intervention

Italian Foreign Minister Franko Frattini's demand for an end to the Nato intervention in Libya is simply not an option, writes the business paper De Tijd: "The mission against Gaddafi must not be abandoned too quickly. Nevertheless time is of the essence. The European Nato states are on their last legs, and warn that their funding and other resources are quickly drying up. They look imploringly to their big US brother in the hopes that he'll help them out of their predicament. But after the exhausting battles in Afghanistan and Iraq he's now tired of war. And the US has learned from its own botch-ups in Afghanistan and Iraq that if you go to war you'd better have a good plan. This advice comes too late for Libya. Nevertheless Nato must bring its work to a successful conclusion. There's no other option."

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