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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Libya


Would you buy a used car from this man?


I have always thought that Muamar Quaddafi was quite mad. Just the look of him and his actions suggested that he was not playing with a full deck The one thing that is for certain is that Quaddafi is no Mubarak. His people know him better than I do, so they would have known that they were playing with explosive material when they decided he had to go.
I can unerstand how frustrating living under his rule must have been, and seeing the results next door in Tunisa and Egypt must have been tempting. " The time is right," would have gone the thinking, but when you are dealing with a perceived madman with tremendous resources you have to know that the odds are not on your side. And so it is being proved correct. It was a grave mistake for the people of Libya to attempt to get rid of The Colonel in this manner, and they must now pay the price of their ill-conceived actions. In spite of a no-fly zone and attacks on tanks from the air, Quaddafi has the upper hand with arms and fools who will use them against themselves, in the end. This is very sad as I can understand the urge for freedom. They cannot win, and when it is clear that he has put down the rebellion he will turn on the very people who helped kill the uprising. Meanwhile, a very dangerous precedent has been created. The U.S. and others have attacked Libya for doing the very same thing that Bahrain and Saudi Arabia will likely do in the future. Those countries will not suffer the same fate. They are too important as producers of oil. What a mess!
Copyright (c) 2011 Eugene Carmichael