For at least six years now, Bulgarian nurses have been rotting in a Libyan jail. These innocent nurses have been both tortured by Libyan goons and have been unjustly accused and tried in an Islamo-Fascist kangaroo court by a tinpot dictator who murdered hundreds of innocent people on a Pan-Am flight in 1988.

To date, NO Bulgarian government has done squat to free these victims of a cruel dictator and a pretend judicial system. Whether it was former prime minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg's government or the current BCP Government of Prime Minister (Sergei) Stanishev and President (Georgi) Purvanov.

The hue and cry of the naive diplomats, as well as the EU, has added up to talking and doing nothing. Meanwhile, these innocent Bulgarians have wasted six years of their lives away from their families, friends and beloved country.

Their lives have come to a complete halt.

Talk is cheap. Frequently, diplomats forget that talk only goes so far. Unfortunately, they sometimes suffer from the delusion that diplomacy is the only option.

This is not how the real world works, though.

It is long past any appropriate waiting period for diplomacy to have freed these nurses. It is obvious to everyone that diplomacy has been a complete and total failure in this instance.

Someone once defined stupidity as trying the same thing over and over again that doesn't work, and expecting a different result. And, yes, this is the case with the failure of diplomacy with the tortured nurses case.

So, what is to be done? Something simply MUST be done soon. Should we wait another six years and hope that Gaddaffi might decide to free these nurses out of the kindness of his heart? What about waiting 10, 20 or 30 years? Should the EU or Bulgaria pay him a bribe to let them go? Oh, yes! This is the easy option but it would just encourage more hostage-taking of any Bulgarian citizen in an Arabic nation.

As long as this cowardly Bulgarian Government refuses to act, virtually every Bulgarian citizen in ANY Arabic country is at risk. It will be open season on holding Bulgarians hostage for any fake reason.

All that has been done is to demonstrate the powerlessness and lack of care for these innocent Bulgarian nurses, suffering in a hellhole in Libya, by a succession of impotent Bulgarian governments.

Again, diplomacy does not always work. In fact, it frequently fails. Just look at how diplomacy has failed to stop the killing in Sudan. What about how well diplomacy worked to solve the Serbian government slaughtering ethnic Albanians? How well did diplomacy work in stopping Hitler at Munich? And, what great results diplomacy has had in stopping a nutty communist dictator in North Korea, that butchers his own people, from making atomic weapons? The next great failure of diplomacy is the UN, EU and the US allowing the terrorist-supporting fascist government of Iran to make atomic weapons to hold the world hostage.

Let's face the facts. When all is said and done, there is always more said than done by diplomats. All the talking is over concerning the innocent Bulgarian nurses trapped in Libya. They are a mere plaything of Gaddaffi. Once again, diplomacy has utterly failed.

It is far past the appropriate time to take action.

Bulgaria does have a military. They also have highly trained special troops that could perform a rescue operation to free the nurses.

All of the hand-wringing and blathering on has failed regardless of which Bulgarian Government has tried it. Bulgaria needs to take military action. What is the use of having a military if you do not use it when it is needed? There is none. You might as well disband it and hope that bureaucrats can defend Bulgaria and her citizens when the need arises by throwing their pencils at an aggressor.

The Bulgarian press should be asking each candidate for the office of president what they are specifically going to do to free the abused Bulgarian medics. Any answer except for military action should be viewed as only empty words and political hogwash.

It is far past a decent time interval for action to be taken to free these poor nurses. Bulgaria has brave, professional and competent soldiers that would be willing to sacrifice their lives for the freedom of their brothers and sisters. And, yes, I do know several of them.

It is time to see them shed some blood of the Islamo-fascist government enslaving Bulgarian citizens. If not, the Arabic world will just continue to laugh at Bulgaria and spit in her face. Inaction only proves that Gaddaffi and his lackeys have won.

Cordially,
Keith W. Brown