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2011-03-03 Africa North

Libyan Government Reportedly Accepts Venezuelan Plan to End Conflict

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Posted by DarthVader 2011-03-03 11:50|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Opportunity abdicated?

Thanks, Obean.

Posted by gorb 2011-03-03 12:06|| 2011-03-03 12:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Mo, Hugo, and the Arab League.
Now there's a combination that just screams "success"...

Posted by tu3031 2011-03-03 12:09|| 2011-03-03 12:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Combinations like that should be kept in a Class V Biocontainment facility.

Gad zooks that is probably nearly as toxic a combination as our Congress.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2011-03-03 12:29|| 2011-03-03 12:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Anyone know if the other actual party to the conflict accepts the plan?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-03-03 12:31|| 2011-03-03 12:31|| Front Page Top

#5 I mean, this is kinda like Imperial Japan proposing a solution to the conflict between Germany and Poland.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-03-03 12:32|| 2011-03-03 12:32|| Front Page Top

#6 It appears that answer would be..."no".

Reuters reports that the chairman of the rebel National Libyan Council rejected proposed talks with Qaddafi. "No one has told us a thing about it and we are not interested anyway. We will never negotiate with him," rebel spokesman Abdul Hafif Goga told The Guardian.

Another member of the committee told the U.K. paper that "talk of peace is far too late" because of the killings.

Too bad, Hugo. There goes your Nobel Peace Prize...

Posted by tu3031 2011-03-03 12:36|| 2011-03-03 12:36|| Front Page Top

#7 This plan won't work. The Libyan rebels know that they and their families are dead if Gaddafi regains control, and Gaddafi has turned toxic in Western politics.

However the message is clear. Gaddafi has powerful friends in the world who will not abandon him, even though his assets are frozen and he's lost control over Libya's oil.

Gaddafi is still a force to be reckoned with and he might even, with the assistance of his friends reestablish his rule over Libya.

If the rebels don't swiftly crush Gaddafi militarily they will lose. Time is on Gaddafi's side now.

Posted by Slorong Peacock2780 2011-03-03 13:33|| 2011-03-03 13:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Hugo Chavez is the 2004 winner of the Al-Qaddafi International Prize for Human Rights.

Other winners of this award include Louis Farrakhan, Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega and Tayyip Erdoğan.

Posted by Lord Garth 2011-03-03 14:04|| 2011-03-03 14:04|| Front Page Top

#9 You mean ... someone has come up with a solution? You mean ... the junior Senator from Illinois' did not provide World Leadership? I even hear his golf score still sucks.

Posted by Blossom Thrumble6693 2011-03-03 15:18|| 2011-03-03 15:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Thing: you say that, but actually Imperial Japan was relatively close to pre-war Poland, as they were both strategic threats to the Soviet Union, and thus had a common interest. I was just reading a book called Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin about the various genocides in the decade-and-a-half between the Elbe and the Dnepr, and how they were more related than not. One of those relations was how much of the Great Purges was aimed against imagined Polish subversion (and by weird extension, Japanese-subversion-through-Polish-exiles-in_Siberia) and Polish citizens of the Soviet republics. There was a very active Japanese intelligence operation run out of Lithuania which was directly responsible for the successful evacuation of a few thousand Lithuanian Jews during Barbarossa. (Kind of a sickly pittance, it was like 1 in 100 or 1 in 50 even in Lithuania, but they tried.)

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-03-03 16:58|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-03-03 16:58|| Front Page Top

#11 Libyan Government Reportedly Accepts Venezuelan Plan to End Conflict

Does it involve the compromise of smiling during the day and breaking into peoples' houses at night and killing them?

Posted by gorb 2011-03-03 22:21|| 2011-03-03 22:21|| Front Page Top

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