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2011-03-13 Africa Subsaharan

African Union Backs Qaddafi to Prevent 'Western Influence'

According to this news item from The Herald, mouthpiece of the ruling Zanu-PF Party, the African Union has decided that while the regime of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi is 'authoritarian,' to force him from office would invite Western influence and chaos. It has also decided to back Ivory Coast President-elect Alassane Ouattara in his bid to unseat Laurent Gbagbo, who refuses to step down after his electoral defeat last December.

Posted by tipper 2011-03-13 04:13|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

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Posted by Dribble2716 2011-03-13 04:45|| 2011-03-13 04:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Hey, I just thought of something...do you think that those "immigrants" in France are imported by the car dealers? Afterall that's an even quicker way to turn over stock than planned obselesence, no?

Posted by AlanC 2011-03-13 09:18|| 2011-03-13 09:18|| Front Page Top

#3 ...This comment from www.neptunuslex.com seems relevant:

"...It would be the profoundest irony if, after having broken our hearts and the bodies of our youth for nearly 10 years now in the Middle East we have come to the conclusion that these people cannot be saved at precisely the same moment when they finally became ready for salvation.

Because thats what just happened, if you werent paying attention: Weve gotten tired of them. Were tired of their ululations, their savagery and their conspiracy theories. Were tired of their backwardness, sloth, dependency and fatalism. Weve gotten tired of trying to accommodate a modern day, pluralistic and tolerant society to the religious dictates of a military adventurer dead some 1400 years.

Weve seen a people bravely rise against a brutal tyrant who has been a decadal enemy our our country, who has murdered our citizens time and again and decided that there is no choosing between the two of them. We have shown other tyrants that the way to overcome civil unrest is through air strikes and mechanized assault. The shining city on a hill has turned its back on the weak and the oppressed: They are not our people, this is not our war.

Welcome to our Brave New World..."

Concur.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2011-03-13 13:12|| 2011-03-13 13:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Mike, exactly what evidence do you have that says "these people" are now ready for salvation?

How do you know this is not a reprise of any one of dozens of cases where one tyrant is overthrown only to be rapidly replaced by another?
EG How's Egypt doing now that they've replaced Mubarak with a junta? How about Somalia, Iran, Lebanon, etc.

If we wanted to off 'daffy for mudering Americans then RR should have followed it up. I forgive him as there was this minor Cold War thingee going on at the time that had to be taken into account.

We have no skin in this game and I for one am tired of, as you quote, trying to accommodate a modern day, pluralistic and tolerant society to the religious dictates of a military adventurer dead some 1400 years.

After all, one of the main leaders of the oppo is an ex-'daffy big turban. Not the most fertile of grounds for the next Switzerland.

Posted by AlanC 2011-03-13 14:18|| 2011-03-13 14:18|| Front Page Top

#5 The definition of stupidity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-03-13 14:53|| 2011-03-13 14:53|| Front Page Top

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