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2010-11-27 Africa North

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Posted by Omaing White7048 2010-11-27 15:55|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 I disagree. This 'crisis' was an act of explorative aggression. Libya tested if it could get away with brandishing nuclear weapons (post 9/11!) and Libya did get away with it.

Remember that the Gaddafi regime threatened a genocidal nuclear strike on Switzerland in August of 2009 ("If I had a Nuclear Bomb, I would erase Switzerland".)

Libya now knows that nuclear blackmail works and won't backfire. Libya is free of sanctions and thus has enough money to buy nuclear weapons material and delivery systems that it doesn't have (from North Korea and others.)

Nothing was defused. The stage was set for a nightmarish standoff a couple of years in the future, involving real nuclear weapons not material.

This is another reason for Europe to withdraw from Afghanistan immediately. Existential threats are forming in our immediate neighborhood, thanks to the provocative weakness of Western political elites (very much including the Bush administration, at least after 2003.)

Posted by Omaing White7048 2010-11-27 16:34|| 2010-11-27 16:34|| Front Page Top

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