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2013-09-04 Africa North

Libya moves on -- into lawlessness and ruin

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Posted by Beavis 2013-09-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: Arab Spring

#1 Another sad all over situation where deposition ruined chances for stability. It was coming anyway, just not as badly as it is now.

Posted by newc 2013-09-04 00:30|| 2013-09-04 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Poland would be a perfect protector/mentor-state, in ten years they'd all be wearing bowling shirts.

Posted by Shipman 2013-09-04 05:26|| 2013-09-04 05:26|| Front Page Top

#3 The west seems to be infected with serial stupidity and cupidity in all diplomatic matters these days.

"Outrage is not strategy."

What, exactly, was expected to be the results of the bombing of Libya?

Posted by AlanC 2013-09-04 08:02|| 2013-09-04 08:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Libya moves on -- into lawlessness and ruin

Unexpectedly!

Posted by Pappy 2013-09-04 08:15|| 2013-09-04 08:15|| Front Page Top

#5 #3 The west seems to be infected with serial stupidity and cupidity in all diplomatic matters these days. AlanC

Filling the news with a foreign crisis cut from whole cloth, appears to be the standard antidote for a regime beset by a failed economic strategy and scandal.

Anyone who cannot see through Champ's methodology really isn't bright enough to be elected to public office. Boehner's and other pubs signing on to the Champ's Syrian resolution only highlights their complicity in the grand beltway scheme of obfuscation and deception.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-09-04 08:27|| 2013-09-04 08:27|| Front Page Top

#6 certain tribal cultures seem to be unable to maintain productive civility without the boot of an ultra strongman on their collective necks. Islam seems to exacerbate this tendency

Posted by Frank G 2013-09-04 09:39|| 2013-09-04 09:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Accelerated 'hope and change' ?

Posted by Besoeker 2013-09-04 13:44|| 2013-09-04 13:44|| Front Page Top

#8 So much for Afghanistan. So much for Libya. So much for Egypt. Let's move on to Syria.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-09-04 15:17|| 2013-09-04 15:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Oh, I forgot. How's Iraq doing these days?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-09-04 15:18|| 2013-09-04 15:18|| Front Page Top

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