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On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 11:10:28 PM UTC-4, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
We certainly encouraged it and then bombed. This is like saying because
someone else started an assault and you only joined in the attack,
the guy getting killed had nothing to do with you.
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in
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On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 3:59:25 PM UTC+2, John Larkin wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 07:01:14 +0000 (UTC),
DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:
trader4@optonline.net wrote in
news:f2c0a22c-cdfe-41cf-a4a3-a0bfa4d66257@googlegroups.com:
Not for many years. The US had taken Libya off the list of
state sponsors of terrorism.
Ask Scotland if they think he was not a terrorist.
Oh and yes, for that alone, he deserved death, regardless of
the
moments elapsed between his act and the act that killed him.
Sure, but bringing one despot to justice is not worth flinging
millions of people into chaos and civil war. K was being
leveraged around to better behavior, and he did hold his country
together.
The whole problem with Gaddafi was that - after the Arab Spring,
he couldn't hold his country together. The population (or
substantial proportion of it) had gone into armed rebellion.
Nobody in the West had encoruaged that.
It was Gaddafi's enthusiasm for particularly brutal rebellion
suppresion that prompted Sarkozy to mobile his NATO allies to use
air-power to impede Gaddafi's capacity to move his armed forces
around to kill off everybody they could get at.
Ditto Sadaam and Tito.
Tito died of natural causes. Sadaam got a bit too ambitious.
Some countries need a dictator, to glue them together in the
short term.
Sadly for Gaddafi, he couldn't keep his country glued together
after the Arab Spring. He'd stopped provoking his neighbours, but
wasn't doing enough for the people he rulled to saty in power
after the Arab Spring.
Several of our more right-wing lunatics blame Obama and Clinton,
as if they'd set the Arab Spring unwinding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring
sees it as as home-grown phenomenon, quite possibly help by the
new social media which seemed to have played a significant role in
sreading the protests.
Thank you for getting it right.
We did nothing to get it going it was Gaddafi himself sealing his
own fate.
We certainly encouraged it and then bombed. This is like saying because
someone else started an assault and you only joined in the attack,
the guy getting killed had nothing to do with you.