An article that everyone can find something to praise/complain about, just read it

[heartsurgeon]

Christopher Hitchens is always provocative, rarely wrong, and never in doubt..
this is a great read. i don't agree with everything, and neither will you. on the whole, i believe it is
accurate.

Qaddafi Does a Deal

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Good read.
Thanks

CkG

 

[Dari]

Well, he's mostly right, except for israel and her Jericho-2 nuclear missiles. Those weapons would've been used in the 1970s had the arabs launched a successful strike and the Jewish state was going down. It's main aim was to destroy the entire arab civilization as the Jewish state went under.

Today, it's a totally different ballgame. You can't put the original reasoning into today's scenerio.

 

[maluckey]

Good read, though I found it interesting that everyone believs that Khadafy's change of heart was sudden. Sure, the Iraqi confict solidified Libyan points of view, but It took him since the eighties to turn around. This has been long in the making.

I still believe Libya was playing both sides of the coin, just not wanting to become irrelevant should he have to make a solid decision for one side or the other. Now the balance of power in the Middle East has drastically shifted towards the west, and Khadafy has made his choice. He must now go one hundred percent, or his former allies will see it as weakness, rather than strength, and his fight will have been for naught.

The entire Middle East could apply the "Mexican Crab Story", to itself, and maybe see how counterproductive they have become, and maybe make it out of the dark ages.