The problem that many are facing in analysing Libya and Gaddafi’s demise is that they are looking at it all with a Western focus.
When it comes to human rights and democracy, the United States and its allies in Europe have zero consistency.
Gaddafi is no hero of the third world, the crimes he visited upon his own people are evidence of his true face.
You can help Libya’s rebels find the great Brother-Leader!
If the Libyan rebels get a theme song, it must be Ice Cube’s classic joint.
Accepting western intervention in Libya under the guise of ‘help’ or ‘preventing bloodshed’ was a grave mistake by the Libyan rebels and their supporters across the Arab world. At that moment, Libya’s prospects turned bleak.
Maybe what is happening in Libya is a check-mate situation. Libyans have no moves to make except the ones they are making.
Libya’s ruler is the million ideas man when it comes to the world’s problems. His great imagination when it comes to other countries is nowhere to be found as he finds his own country in turmoil.
The military intervention in Libya has divided the left into two camps, the pro-interventionists and the anti-imperialists who define it as a military assault equivalent to the war in Iraq. As a Libyan, I reject this false contradiction.
According to Nancy Foreman, Gaddafi is the “spiffiest dictator on the planet today!” Who knows? Maybe once he’s deposed, he can find work as a fashion consultant for lunatic leaders – instructing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for instance, to ditch the oversized sport coat for an argyle sweater vest and matching cape.