Robert Fisk: You can't blame Gaddafi for thinking he was one of the good guys

[Matilda]

We loved him. We hated him. Then we loved him again. Blair slobbered over him. Then we hated him again. Then La Clinton slobbered over her BlackBerry and we really hated him even more again. Let us all pray that he wasn't murdered. "Died of wounds suffered during capture." What did that mean?

He was a crazy combination of Don Corleone and Donald Duck – Tom Friedman's only moment of truth about Saddam Hussein – and we who had to watch his ridiculous march-pasts and his speeches bit our lips and wrote about Libyan tanks and marines and missiles that were supposed to take this nonsense seriously. His frogmen flipped and flapped through Green Square in the heat and we had to take this rubbish at face value and pretend that it was a real threat to Israel; just as Blair tried to persuade us (not unsuccessfully) that Gaddafi's pathetic attempts to create "weapons of mass destruction" had been skewered. This, in a country that couldn't repair a public lavatory.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-you-cant-blame-gaddafi-for-thinking-he-was-one-of-the-good-guys-2373796.html


Good piece from the wonderful Robert Fisk. Politicians do indeed have conveniently short memories - I suppose they'd go slowly nuts if they didn't.

[Tx4obama]

1. When he called Libyan citizens rats, and went on TV and said was going to kill the ...

people of Misurata - HE knew that HE wasn't one of the good guys.

He was evil and many of his sons were evil - and he/they knew it.

[msongs]

2. love the pic of Obama shaking hands with Gadaffi - other world leaders be forewarned lol nt

[Tx4obama]

4. Don't forget about all the photos of Gadhafi with Bush, Condi Rice, McCain, Leiberman, etc. n/t

[Matilda]

3. I don't know - I think such people, with total power,

become so deluded they probably end up believing everything they say.

The real tragedy is when other world leaders, for their own political ends, pretend to believe them too.

[bhikkhu]

6. The more evil one becomes, the more evil one sees in the world

Possibly by the end he imagined that he was still a good guy, but that the only other good left in the world was in his immediate little group.

...I wonder if this generalizes to repugs, who see most of the world as against them, and most of the country as not to be trusted. Or if it generalizes to the perspectives of those who see only evil in US and European policies toward the world.

[PETRUS]

5. US foreign policy has long been amoral Machiavellian-ism. nt

[bvar22]

7. Gaddafi, a meglomaniacal dictator, but...

” For all his dictatorial megalomania, Gaddafi is a committed pan-African - a fierce defender of African unity. Libya was not in debt to international bankers. It did not borrow cash from the International Monetary Fund for any "structural adjustment". It used oil money for social services - including the Great Man Made River project, and investment/aid to sub-Saharan countries. Its independent central bank was not manipulated by the Western financial system. All in all a very bad example for the developing world.”

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MD27Ak01.html

I'm sure the Libyans will be much better off in the
NeoLiberal Free market HELL that will be imposed upon them,
where the Western Banks, The Western Resource Extraction Corporations, and the IMF will take care of them.
SEE: Iraq
Same Players.
Same Plan.

Freedom Bombs aren't FREE, Ya Know.
They come with a horrible price.




You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.

Solidarity99!
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