I had been planning to write this entry about the plight of Libya on Thursday night before the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
As the pictures from Japan started to come in following the massive earthquake and devastating tsunami, I, like the rest of the media world, moved my attention away from the state of Libya.
The catastrophic scale of the damage and destruction caused by less then three minutes of platonic movement off the coast of Japan shows the fragility of human life.
The tsunami that has plunged a country into a state of desperate emergency should remind us this.
This takes me back to Libya.
The nervousness of the global community to intervene in the developing struggle will surely bring mass killings to the deserts of Libya as Colonel Gaddafi seeks revenge against the rebels.
Gaddafi has been holding back from using force to how the international community will act, and so far nothing but a few feeble words have come about.
On Friday, the EU agreed that a stronger stance was needed, and today the Arab League backed the idea of a no fly zone.
But the problem is the UN has failed to act to save precious lives.
Gaddafi will no doubt now try to squash those who protested against his rule. The rebels are now in fear for their lives and as stated by the BBC journalist captured and tortured this week.
There will be a heavy price to pay for trying to gain democracy.
The United Nations was established to help keep peace.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is intended to value the lives of those who seek freedom.
Our failure to act together in a way that the UN was originally designed for has enabled the crisis to turn into a massacre before our eyes.
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