Back sitting with Gaddafi in his Bedouin tent – maybe that's where they want to be
Published:
March 12, 2011 at 11:31pm
“The risks of intervening are great, but the Arabs in revolt share a fundamental value with people in the West – the call of freedom. Whoever does not honor this debt will find himself, five or six years from now, back sitting with Gaddafi in his Bedouin tent.
“If Gaddafi goes on slaughtering his people, the Americans and Europeans will have to get involved in the end. Their own claims to morality and the calls from supporters of human rights … will not let thousands die in Libya while politicians look on idly from the far side of the Mediterranean.”
– Tomas Avenarius, writing in the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung
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Reply to Antoine Vella Click here to cancel reply
We’re not even on the “far” side of the Med; we’re practically on the near side and it seems we have every intention of looking on idly, to our shame.
I’m glad Avenarius uses the word ‘debt’. We Maltese are in debt with Libyans: we have honoured their oppressor, given him medals, invited him to speak at mass meetings, solemnly declared our friendship and turned our country into a province of his.
The least we can do is show some remorse, admit our mistakes and do our utmost to help Libyans get rid of him.
It will never happen, however.
Yes, they are right. They share the same values because they are not Libyan, but American, British and from all over Europe. Check this YouTube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMmW5IE7Jfk&feature=player_embedded
And these are they values they believe in :”Jihad! Allah u Akbar”. Check out this link and see what these “peaceful protesters” with our “values” are doing to black and white unarmed Libyan citizens and prisoners who happen to support the Green Revolution of Muammar Gaddafi in Benghazi. Note: Graphic Images.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSjUHsSB3h8&feature=player_embedded
[Daphne – NB, readers: this is the Deo Cassar who was on a recent Xarabank ‘panel’ to discuss Libya, his thesis being that the images are faked for the cameras. Of course some of them have British and American passports, Deo – haven’t you been reading the interviews and news reports about how many ex patriate Libyan men are going back to Libya to fight against Gaddafi, who is the reason they do not live in Libya in the first place?]
Perhaps Deo Cassar would care to read Michael Burleigh’s article Gaddafi: Inside the mind of a tyrant in The Telegraph today? Here are the opening paragraphs:
“This week, newly released papers from the German government revealed something rather pertinent for those considering what the embattled Col Gaddafi’s next trick would be. The papers declared that on May 27, 1980, Gaddafi handed a written demand to Günter Held, the West German ambassador in Tripoli, for the eyes of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.
He insisted that Schmidt expel exiled Libyan opponents of his regime who were living in Germany. If the Chancellor refused, Gaddafi swore he would take “counter-measures” against 2,500 Germans in Libya, including the few being held in jail. The Colonel asked if West Germany wanted “to co-operate with traitors – or the Libyan people”. He even offered to stop subsidising Red Army Faction terrorists, provided, of course, that Schmidt allowed him to liquidate “a relatively small number of people” living on German soil.
This, in a nutshell, is Gaddafi’s modus operandi. He bears grudges heavily, is never shy of wreaking blood-soaked havoc or proffering deadly threats – and has next to no sense of reality outside his own paranoid bunker.”