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| TNR: What QaddafiÂ’s Fall Means for His Evil Minions in S. America, Asia & Africa | |
| 2011-08-28 | |
| Judging from the fervor of their celebrations, the Libyan people are acutely aware that they will benefit from the fall of Muammar Qaddafi. But Libya is hardly the only country that has reason to rejoice. As committed as the dictator was to destroying his own country, he posed an equal—perhaps even greater—danger to developing countries in other parts of the world. From the time he assumed power, Qaddafi leveraged Libya’s oil money, and his own willingness to have his country become a pariah state, to support insurgencies from East Asia, to South America, to southern Africa. With any luck, a number of long-running civil wars will disappear from the world stage together with Qaddafi himself. One of his pet projects, in fact, was the World Revolutionary Center, which he established near the city of Benghazi. Stephen Ellis referred to the institution as the “Harvard and Yale of a whole generation of African revolutionaries.” While many of his graduates shared an anti-Western ideology—which appealed to the Libyan dictator’s own self-image as one of the few statesmen willing to stand up to would-be imperialists—sometimes the rebels on his bankroll had no discernable ideology at all. Qaddafi’s ideological inclinations were often outweighed by his appetite for power, his desire to be seen as a dominant powerbroker in Africa, his fantasies of revenge against America, or simply his love of mischief.
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #7 Well, to be fair lets ask ISRAEL vee ISLAMIST IRAN'S AHMADINEJAD [aka MAD MOUD aka SHORT ROUND], shall we??? To wit, * NEWS KERALA > "NO ROOM FOR ISRAEL" [in ME Region] AFTER CREATION OF INDEPENDENT PALESTINIAN STATE, IRAN PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD. ARTIC > MOUD = Creation of sovereign independent Paleo State is just the FIRST STEP in the final struggle towards the liberation of any + all Palestinian lands [from pro-US Crusader Zionist Jewish-Israeli Occupiers]. IOW, MOUD = NO JEWISH STATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST PERIOD. E-V-A-R! OR .... * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS, PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUMS > IRAN FORIEGN MINISTRY: MUSLIM NATIONS FIRM IN ERADICATING | HALTING ISRAEL. D *** NG IT, GOOD MUSLIM POLITICIANS SAY THEY WANNA "ERADI-HALT" THEM WILY DASTERDLY JEWS! * NEWSMAX > [Senior Israeli Defence Official] ISRAEL "COULD NOT STOP" NUCLEAR IRAN WITH ONE STRIKE. ARTIC = ONLY THE US HAS ANY CHANCE OF FORCING IRAN TO STOP ITS NUCDEVPROGS. IMO, REGIONAL, GLOBAL SHIA ISLAMIC REVOLUTION + "OWG CALIPHATE" PREMISES = short of any Popular-led, EFFEC "REGIME CHANGE" = SUCCESSFUL "PERSIAN/ARAB SPRING" [Summer?] IN IRAN, I DON'T SEE THE USA STOPPING A HARDLINE, NUKE-HAPPY IRAN SHORT OF WAR. To paraph CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER > SAY IT WID ME, AMERICA = AMERIKA, NOSTRADAMUS = " ...NONE SHALL SEE THE POWERS OF ASIA DESTROYED UNTIL THE SEVEN/SEVENTH HOLDS THE LINE". Decisive = Heavenly/Divine Battle. A Soldier named Francis ... A River + Valley called the Little Big Horn. An Asteroid the size of Texas. A Sword named EXCALIBUR ... There were other Battalions in the Valley - we weren't the only one - but somewhere out there [yet unseen] was an entire Enemy Regiment = Division. [1960's = 1980's OLIVER STONE'S "PLATOON", JEFFERSON AIRPLANE'S "WHITE RABBIT", MTV here]. versus * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > AL-QAIDA [network] FIRMLY ROOTED IN [Northeast]PAKISTANI TRIBAL FIEFDOM. 'Tis too well entrenched + strong for the US-NATO + FEW-IFF-ANY-IN-NUMBER ANTI-MILITANT PAK GOVT. ELEMENTS TO DISLODGE. Read, NOT IN TIME FOR THE US-NATO PULLOUT/DRAWDOWN FROM AFGHANISTAN ANYWAY. * SAME > SOMALI PIRATES LINK TO PAKISTAN CONFIRMED | INDIA: SOMALI PIRATES BEING TRAINED IN PAKISTAN TO WAGE WAR ON INDIA. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-08-28 21:22 |
| #6 So far the rebels aren't even willing to extradite a Gaddafi regime terrorist who was released because of 'thuggish threats' against Britain. I have supported NATO's military action. Gaddafi's downfall really is a positive development for the West, but while the successor regime objectively can't get any more dangerous than Gaddafi we should keep in mind that they might become as dangerous. A stern warning to the rebels right now while the situation is still fluid might do wonders. |
| Posted by: Woodrow Noodleman9965 2011-08-28 18:04 |
| #5 TW - I suspect Kurlantzick fancies himself as more of a Third Wayer. Therefore, by affilliation he would have no choice but to publicly reject the neoconservative worldview. But as you noticed, when it comes to foriegn intervention there's really not a dimeÂ’s worth of difference betwixt the two. Ironic ain't it? |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2011-08-28 17:30 |
| #4 Lovely place. Had just a bit more than training facilities TW. Indeed, Besoeker. But that was on the other side, for President Hussein's local team. And honestly, I only have a glimmer of an idea of what went on there, which would be enough to give me nightmares, did I think on it very deeply. Depot Guy, you don,t mean to say the gentleman is a neocon? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-08-28 15:06 |
| #3 That is not to say that they are responsible for the mayhem caused by the former regime. But by recognizing their political inheritance, and perhaps setting aside some funds for victims of QaddafiÂ’s international terror... True to form, the Progressive propagandist Kurlantzick, weaves his usual template of already knowns with highly questionable assumptions into one disingenuouse narrative. Not to be the spoiler here but the moral of most of his tales end with a common theme - Intervention is a moral imperative and economic development drives democratization. The reason Kurlantzick and his ilk seldom proclaim this in concise language is becuase it would reveal that they veiw international laws that govern soverign states as quaint inconveniences. Not to mention, doesn't economic development sound much better then redistribution of wealth? |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2011-08-28 14:50 |
| #2 Salman Pak had a jet for rehearsing hijackings as well technical training programs in bomb-making Ah yes, Salman Pak. Lovely place. Had just a bit more than training facilities TW. But of course discussing those very nasty realities might reveal the evil Bushhitler's justification for going to war. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-08-28 10:18 |
| #1 Saddam Hussein handed out $25,000 checks to Palestinians who murdered Israelis. His training camp at Salman Pak had a jet for rehearsing hijackings as well technical training programs in bomb-making, production of chemical weapons, and other terrorist skill sets. He's gone, along with his sons. Moammar Kadaffy had a training camp for terrorists, of which Salman Pak was a copy. The graduates formed the cadres of so-called revolutionary -- really terror-- movements throughout the third world, including jihadis. He and his sons are on the run, and may soon be captured or dead. Iran's Mullahcracy, Pakistan's ISI, the Saudi princelings, they should be concerned that the next president will continue this trend, though they are totalitarian oligarchies instead of individual enterprises. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-08-28 10:13 |