Heil Hifter!

[Perknose]

Libya in chaos:

The deadliest of Libya’s recent fighting has occurred in the eastern city of Benghazi, where troops loyal to an army general named Khalifa Hifter are battling other armed militias, as part of what Mr. Hifter says is a national campaign to eradicate Libya’s powerful Islamist politicians and fighters. The clashes have opened new divisions across the country and aggravated Libya’s violence.

Those divisions appeared to play a role in the Tripoli clashes on Sunday, which also involved militias with a history of animosity. The international airport in Tripoli, a strategic prize, has been under the control of fighters from the western mountain town of Zintan since 2011. Early Sunday, rival militias in western Libya, including those from the coastal city of Misurata, attacked the Zintani brigades at the airport and other sites in Tripoli. In addition to the six dead, at least 25 people were wounded.

Libya is one of those post-colonial entities that, to a not insignificant extent, is a country in name only. For sure, there are factions among these different militias that hew to varying degrees of ideological Islam, but I'll bet if you look just below the surface, each militia is more or less tied to one TRIBE.

Oil riches, a huge stockpile of eastern-block arms from the Qaddifi era, the rise of varying flavors of Islamic activism . . . oh boy, what a recipe for cascading violence.

 

[Abwx]

Oil riches, a huge stockpile of eastern-block arms from the Qaddifi era, the rise of varying flavors of Islamic activism . . . oh boy, what a recipe for cascading violence.

One has to wonder why they got rid of their walfare system, for the record i point a few here :

- 5000$ for whom is isolated and need a car for his dsplacements.

- 600$/months for anyone being unemployed.

- 50 000$ subside for anyone marrying.

- interestless very long term loan to build a house (for married people only but as much as 50 years loan term)

- 2000$/month for whoever wants to do university studies abroad

- water and electricity were free.

- 10cts/liter (about 38cts/gallon) gas

- Free and first rate healthcare

It is obvious that the western supported scum that brought this country to its knees was a minority but benefited from a large scale war waged by the NATO, without this "help" thoses criminals would be all buried.

 

[Jaskalas]

Libya in chaos:

The lesson of Iraq, keep the dictators in power.

Our government continues to try and ferment this !@#$ in Syria. Are we stopping our leaders from doing that? No. Why not?

 

[Abwx]

The lesson of Iraq, keep the dictators in power.

Our government continues to try and ferment this !@#$ in Syria. Are we stopping our leaders from doing that? No. Why not?

It s a mistake to think that those countries could change overnight, despite a huge power the syrian president couldnt change his country in the short term because there is a nomenklatura that wouldnt agree and that has the power to deposit him if ever it feel threatened in its privilege, actualy it would take 20 years , that s the time it takes for those people to slowly disappear and be replaced by modernists.

As pointed by Khadafi democracy wouldnt work curently as, according to his own words, political oppositions would ressort to murders as a mean to access power, and the events proved that he was right.

 

[Thebobo]

The lesson of Iraq, keep the dictators in power.

Our government continues to try and ferment this !@#$ in Syria. Are we stopping our leaders from doing that? No. Why not?

yea no shit first its Egypt is free woot! Now they can vote for whomever they want and then ops they did and then lets ignore the dictatorship coming back because its better then the MB, in their opinion. Silly America cant we get it right.

 

[schmuckley]

Egyptians actually have their heads on straight..

 

[Abwx]

Egyptian current dictatorship is illegal of course but one can only aknowledge that the muslim brothers leader who was ousted lacked polititical intelligence since he didnt prevent the generals from crushing the economy as a mean to create discontent.

For thoses who are not aware, the egyptian army has huge economical influence through a myriad of corporates, they artificialy created short supplies, most notably in electricity supply, to get the people acting as an useful idiot in their cynical plan.