The New Libya Is Not Off To A Good Start
You know that the going is going to be tough for the new Libya when the first thing the liberators do is sodomize the deposed dictator with a knife in a kind of revenge fantasy, when their leaders promise accountability and then refuse to fess up about the circumstances of the deposed dictators death, let alone where he was buried. If in fact he was buried.
And so while I understand the request of interim leader Mustafa Abdel-Jalil (in photo) that NATO air patrols stick around through December rather than go home in a matter of days because loyalists of Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi’s army might rear their ugly heads, I am concerned that a week after the capture and killing of the dictator the victors have yet to agree on a new interim leadership team.
A good start this is not.
4 Responses to “The New Libya Is Not Off To A Good Start”
I am sure there are various factions growing in strength, probably along tribal lines. So I suspect that the “revolution” is not over yet. He who controls the Americans/NATO/France, controls Libya.
I had and still have significant concerns about who exactly will be running the show in Libya after Qaddafi’s ouster. There seemed to be a lot of enthusiasm for getting rid of Qaddafi with little thought given to his successor. I don’t agree with Allen that NATO will control Libya.
Having said that, it’s still too early to say how things will play out. The rebels are off to a shaky start but whether the new administration is better or worse than the old remains to be seen.
NATO has just determined the outcome of a revolution. It has interfered into the internal affairs of a sovereign nation. The rules of the “game” has changed. A very nasty, bloody revolution has taken place. A revolution in which reprisals committed against each side, and, atrocity, will be history. The extent of atrocity I believe is being covered up. An old friend has told me so. May God have Mercy.
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