Col. Muammar al-Qadhafi, leader of great al-Fateh Revolution stressed that emotions based on language, cultural and religious slogans are no longer useful in the light of major groupings witnessed by the world today. The Leader noted that not affiliating to a major space in this era would reflect negatively on economic life. Furthermore, no other state may live outside one of the giant spaces nor can it realize its security and safety.
| I think the "spaces" he's referring to are power blocs... |
In his meeting with Tunisian writers and intellectuals, Col. al-Qadhafi, referred to the major groupings and spaces, which has become a prominant phenomena from America to Europe, and Africa to Asia. He explained that these spaces alone are capable of providing peace and security for its followers. The Leader stated that the Arabs had lost the battle, through which they were supposed to realize their identity, and unity, because they did not subscribe to any alliance, or space. Consequently, they lost the battle.
That would lead me to believe the story about remaining in the Arab League might be thinkful wishing on the part of Hosni and Amr. Muammar, for all his interesting tastes in shirts, is a thinking man. In his younger days, when the Revolution™ was new, he hopped on the anti-Imperialism bandwagon. Mao had a Little Red Book™, Muammar wrote a Little Green Book™. The Arabs were going to blow up Imperialists, Muammar would blow up Imperialists. His world view started changing about the time the Imperialists decided they could blow him up, too, and almost succeeded. Then the commies went out of business. Mao kicked it, and his successors were suddenly capitalists. And the Arabs never, ever succeeded at anything except exporting oil. Instituting regime change twice in two years seemed frighteningly easy for us Imperialists, and that's a really important thing when you're the Leader of the Revoltion™ and worried about leaving the revolution for your kid to run when you're gone to the Great Jamahiriya in the Sky.
So Muammar can see the world's divided into power blocs. He's only too aware that he's in one of the wrong blocs, and since he's pissed away all the oil money on failed schemes he doesn't know how to get out of the hole he's dug. The best he can come up with is to play dynastic politix with Ugandans. What he really needs is a trip to Las Vegas and a long, private talk with Rumsfeld. I'm sure we're willing to let bygones be bygones, for a price. A hefty price, to be sure, but it could buy some safety for his dynasty, which'd be more than any of the Arab states but Jordan has. This is a soft spot in that area of the world, and we should exploit it. |
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