time to reflect on how Libya was won by the 'west" as we move on to the new and ??improved Libya.
How the West won Libya
By Pepe Escobar
They are fighting over the carcass as vultures. The French Ministry of Defense said they got him with a Rafale fighter jet firing over his convoy. The Pentagon said they got him with a Predator firing a Hellfire missile. After a wounded Colonel Muammar Gaddafi sought refuge in a filthy drain underneath a highway - an eerie echo of Saddam Hussein's "hole" - he was found by Transitional National Council (TNC) "rebels". And then duly executed.
Abdel-Jalil Abdel-Aziz, a Libyan doctor who accompanied Gaddafi's body in an ambulance and examined it, said he died from two bullets, one to the chest, one to the head.
The TNC - which has peddled lies, lies and more lies for months - swears he died in "crossfire". It may have been a mob. It may...
Asia Times Online :: THE ROVING EYE : How the West won Libya
JLM....
..are you saying that a LIBERATION of a country does not warrant its own thread??? When such a major change takes place in any nation , it warrants signs in neon lights. It is BIG. and here one was led to believe that you supported this liberation ....even if the tactics were highly questionable. How many thread topics exist about Iraq and Afganistan........ and not sure that either place has been "declared LIBERATED"....yet.
suspect that you are saying that because in your heart you KNOW that what took place was savagery. IF NOT...then you and your supporters have a primitive idea about what "justice" should be. and are stll living in some prehistoric times ....OR followijng the beliefs and rituals of the bunch that slaughtered him. Either way. the conclusions one must draw are very unpleasant.
Meanwhile the US finds his demise a laughing matter. Is that how a civilized nation/ leadership behaves?? Sorry, but not in my world. Maybe in yours.
PS JLM: seems I am not the only one in the world that considers what took place as vulture like savagery. Those that don't ......might want to reflect on their own ethical compasses.
Now.......let the infighting begin. This "liberation" is not going to go down smoothly. But it will be fascinating to observe how they work through their differences......as they try to gel into a semblance of solidity .