In the big shadow of Japan

I'm usually not a great fan of Ronald Reagan, but I feel that his calling Mohammar Ghaddafi 'the mad dog of the middle east' is of some value, even today. He is using the chaos in Japan to get back his country from those deranged and druged palestinian youths that tried to take it from him. And obviously he is succeeding. This should teach the impoverished and starving populations in North Africa a powerful lesson about the difference between dreams and reality. If the no-fly-zone ever comes into place, it will probably be too late, and all the journalists will have left for Tokyo.

I really hope that Ghaddafi's show of strength doesn't quell the dream of democracy totally among the peoples of North Africa, though this might well prove to be the case, as the other rulers in the Middle East also have great arsenals at their disposal. Ghaddafi has in effect shown the way on how to deal with those stupid ideas of people's rule and voting.