Sunday, October 23, 2011

post war LIbya: freedom or more exploitation? Condi Rice's biography on Freedom?


here is a story about european and United Arab Emirates (european arabs) plans for post war Libya.  Don't forget, Italy and Britain stole billions $ from Libya before Ghaddafi did, in fact, Moamar was the last in a long line of thieves.  At least Moamar nationalized the oil companies and kicked the colonialists out - turns out he wasn't much better as far as stealing from the Libyan people.  But Libya is a tribal area, even more unstable than Iraq, so we shall see what democracy brings forth there.  Of course, the plans are not for a democracy: ex Ghaddafi loyalists who flipped sides will be running the police and government services in the short term, in fact, the UAE has plans for that to happen long term.  Libya has no experience with democracy:  remember, just because you have elections, doesn't mean there is democracy (just look at the US in 2000!)

Condi Rick just came out with her Mea Culpa biography of the Bush years:  guess what?  Condi is responsible for the Arab spring, she says democracy after dictatorship can bring out anger, so lets move on after the violence of Iraq and Libya.  Does she really think there is any democracy brewing in Iraq or Libya?  She didn't mention our ally Saudi Arabia, or the UAE dictatorship, or Yemen dictatorship supported by the Saudi's (and the USA).

And Newsweek gives her a pass:  doesn't question a damn thing in her book.  So much for investigative journalism.  Condi Rick is not smart: she is ideological, she sucks up to the right people, she acts like an expert on everything, but she is shallow when it comes to comparative politics and diplomacy.  I mean she hung out with Bush for 8 years, was his closest advisor.  And parts of her book are such bullshit, how she was afraid of a 2nd wave of terrorist attacks on 911, how she saw a plane coming in for a landing weeks later at Reagan Internatinal Airport and thought it was going to hit the White House (the US Congress passed a law making an exception for coast to coast and international flights to land at Reagan airport, so they could be closer to the bars when they got off i guess, they couldn't commute from the other airport like most of us).  so come on, condi, you feared for your life?????  give me a break.

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