Reply #28: The Conflation Is Not Mine, Ma'am, It Is One Pressed By Those Peddling This Line [View All]

[The Magistrate]

At this point, you have not a shadow of evidence for the assertion the rising in Libya is directed by Saudi Wahhabists, or in any way beholden to them, or that they will have any predominant role in what comes into being in a hypothetical post-Gaddahfi Libya.

The fact regarding the autocrats in the region at present is that they cannot continue in power without wholesale massacre of their citizens, and backing them in, or being seen as their patrons in, such actions will gain us nothing in the future. Power which rests on massacre will be met with ever increasing radicalism, and is unlikely to prevail in the long haul.

There are certainly various strains, and degrees of reasonableness, within political Islamic movements. Accommodations can be reached, and again, the easier the transition, the less likely the most radical elements will be predominant.