That saud, it is very important to repost this speech every now and again. Nothing better illustrates our founders hope to avoid FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS than our useless meddling in the Arab and Muslim world. The most recent being our entirely feckless support of DEMOCRACY in the Arab Springs.
Libya is the poster child for our collective hubris and incompetence, and it is important to be reminded what we, as a nation, did.
Is DEMOCRACY, as represented simply as resistance to authoritarian administration of a state government, really the ideal everywhere and at all times?
I’ve heard that what really happened was that Quadaffi was accumulating gold and had plans on backing the Libyan Dinar with gold. He had talked to other African leaders about basing their currency on the Dinar rather than the dollar and euro.
Once Quadaffi was dead they took his gold (never made public where it went) and set up a Central Bank that’s part of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) system.
Other countries w/out a Central Bank that’s part of the ‘system’ are Syria and Iran.
Or a year or two.
"I did all I could to help people Understand the concept of real democracy, where people's committees ran our country.
But that was never enough as some, even people who had 10 room homes, new suits and furniture, were never satisfied. As selfish as they were they wanted more.
They thought that they needed "democracy" and "freedom" never realizing it was a cut throat system, where the biggest dog eats the rest.
But they were enchanted with those words, never realizing that in America before I, Barack Obama, transformed the nation there was no free medicine, no free hospitals, no free housing, no free education and no free food, except when people had to beg or go to long lines to get soup."
Gaddafi was an idiot. He was dictator for 30 years and yet, he was still just a colonel!
"Yes, that reservation number is: '558GQ7' 5-5-8,G as in Gaddafi, Q as in, um, Qaddafi...."