And so, Obama ushers in more Arab Spring "Peace" across the middle east ...
Posted on 10/20/2011 12:31:51 PM PDT by ventanax5
Wounded, weakened and covered in blood and dirt, the fallen dictator was dragged from a truck to meet his unceremonious end. In front of a baying mob, Muammar Gaddafi, the former Libyan leader, begged the revolutionary soldiers for his life. Becoming increasingly desperate, he asked one rebel fighter: 'What did I ever do to you?' But his pleas fell on deaf ears. The deposed despot was mercilessly shot to death, his spilt blood heralding the end of a terrible 42-year epoch in Libyan history.
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I didn’t hear our glorious leader condemn the brutal execution. He is Soooooo clueless. As someone pointed out to me on another thread, murder is ALWAYS illegal and immoral and if anyone cheers this execution (even though the guy was a scumbag) then shame on them.
By Jack David
Muammar Qaddafi is dead. What significance does that fact have? Several observations and questions come to mind.
First, few in Libya and virtually no one elsewhere will mourn his passing. Libya is rid of its vicious tyrannical leader and the world is rid of a terrorist and sponsor of terrorism.
Second, will the defeat and death of Qaddafi be instructive to other tyrants — say, those in Syria, Iran, or North Korea? What lessons will they take from Qaddafi’s demise? An optimist might say that one lesson for the tyrants is that oppressed people may rise up if given a chance, with lethal consequences for the oppressor. But a more likely response of the tyrants still in power would be to prevent the oppressed from ever having the chance of rising up against them. And, of course, the tyrants in Syria, Iran, and North Korea must ask themselves whether the oppressed Libyans would have had a chance of toppling Qaddafi without Western support — air cover and intelligence and aid — and whether that support would have been forthcoming had Qaddafi had WMD and the means of delivering it. More likely than not, the tyrants of the world will see Qaddafi’s defeat and elimination as more evidence that he was foolish to give up his nuclear and other WMD programs in the middle of the last decade.
Third, the defeat and death of Qaddafi cannot be viewed as a triumph of Western policy in general and U.S. policy in particular. President Obama called for Qaddafi’s ouster early in the conflict and then did nothing about it, never asking Congress for authority to use force, refusing to target Qaddafi himself, and then refusing to acknowledge that he was being targeted when NATO clearly was doing so — even insisting that the U.S. was not engaged in “hostilities” in Libya. The dallying and confusion of the Western response will be remembered just as much as the fact of Qaddafi’s demise.
Finally, Qaddafi’s death is not relevant to whether the so-called Arab Spring really is a spring in Libya. Reports that al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb secured Qaddafi’s weapons for their own future terrorist efforts and related reports that they are seeking a role in Libya’s future are worrisome. Libya’s transitional authorities this month prevented exiled Libyan Jew David Gerbi from reopening Tripoli’s synagogue and then forced him to flee the country. This too is very discouraging. And the Draft Constitutional Charter of the Libyan opposition promises in Article 1 of its general provisions that “the principal legislation is Islamic Jurisprudence (Sharia)” — also discouraging. It suggests that the Qaddafi dictatorship may well be followed by a new authoritarian regime that is hostile to the West, not a liberal, democratic one.
In short, while Qaddafi’s demise — without a torturous trial — is cause to be pleased, it is no evidence that we can be less vigilant about threats to U.S. and Western interests from post-“spring” Libya.
So ... he got the Mussolini treatment.
You know, I think it is a disgrace too.
His last words were, “Not in the face!!!! Not in the face!!!”
Who cares? We need to drill drill drill. We need to build new refineries. And then tell the Arabs to screw off. I’m tired of hearing about the Arabs and their oil and the stupid moslem so-called “religion”. Let them rip each others throats out while we have $1.50 a gallon gas and money flows like water again in America.....
He left out Cuba and Venezuela.
But the fact remains .. ozero has empowered the evil to rampage and accomplish their oft stated goal ... world domination.
We need a serious hawk in 2012
I must admit to not having a full handle on the Libyan situation.
Other than I thought the rebel who will likely replace him are probably worst than he was?
Is Libya a threat to our national interest. Did they declare war on us or another country? Is this a war? Did we break Libya and do we have to fix it?
Is this about the oil?
Is Obama officially a war monger?
Does he have to give back his Nobel Peace Prize?
Although, a good tyrant is a dead tyrant.
The caliphate continues. Savage animals, all.
I’m sure Obama will be taking credit for this when he heads back out on the campaign trail.
He got his just desserts —Live by the sword, die by the sword.
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Agreed. How many people were summarily executed by the late and not-so-lamented Colonel I wonder?
He got what he had coming to him.
Plus he is probably just getting us ready for what he wants to do to us. Summary executions in the streets for any citizen who speaks negatively of Der Furher.
Wither the protestors now?
At least with Bush, Saddam was captured and brought to
justice by a court of his peers, not so with Obama
and his minions this time.
Obama wants to wear it on his sleeve but it’s a
bloody thing with little honor to it.
Don’t get me wrong, Momo needed killin’.
I am a big fan of KIA, as with bin Laden.
I don’t think executing a wounded 70 year-old in the streets is something that the POTUS should be celebrating.
We should probably try to encourage western values.
They weren’t a big threat to our national interest before, but they are now.
America had no business being involved in Libya for any reason.
LLS
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