mandag 22. august 2011

Libya, once again...

So the Libyan crisis is in the final stage, not regarding the outcome.There are so many things to comment on this, it's hard to know where to start. OK, so the rumours that Gaddaffi had escaped by a plane supplied by South Africa and awaiting asylum in Angola were not verified. Obviously solid information is hard to come by in this conflict; other rumours said that Gaddaffi's son had escaped from prison, and the takeover of Tripoli seems to be a scam, or, as it were, propaganda. Gaddaffi is going all but quietly, and his latest trick is to place snipers on every street corner to nail down the cheering crowds. I raised my eyebrows on hearing that Russian Federation asked the West to stay out of Libyan politics after the prospective fall of the colonel; I suspected it had to do with the fact that the two abstaining powers in the security council had divided Libyan between them, with Russian sending in arms, and CHina buying the oil fields. I also noticed that the U.S and Great Britain were fighting between them about who should take the credit for the fall of Gaddaffi, each claiming that they were the essential power in the toppling. So far, the toppling seems uncertain, and Seif-Al-Islam has been laughing all the way to the microphone, stating that the ruffian rebels had walked into a trap. The large number of people supporting Gaddaffi is troubling; - he may have been a great leader in the late 60s, but he hasn't excactely proved his statemanship the lastest half year. This is even truer regarding the troubles in Egypt; there it would seem that almost half the population support Mubarak; - does this also mean that they support male chauvinism, sharia, and want no part of a democracy with elected leaders?
If every Gaddaffi-supporter fights with guns to the last blood drop, the final battle will indeed be a bloody affair.

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