Obama: "We have stopped Gaddafi's deadly advance" - RT (video)

[indimuse]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOZaeIlIKB8&feature=feedu


Can you say OIL?

[indimuse]

1. !

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[midnight]

2. I thought we contributed to it.... O all this killing needs to stop..

Is there no one left in the country that knows anything about diplomacy?

[damntexdem]

3. One of the best things Obama has participated in.

It gives the rebels a good chance to take their country out of Ghaddafi's murdering hands.

[SoulSearcher]

5. no one is quite sure who the rebels are yet....

[bhikkhu]

7. One of the interesting parts of the problem, actually

On NPR today they were talking about the meeting of the leaders of the rebel organizations with UN leaders to facilitates government forming and agreements. Apparently it is going along fairly well, and the groups were able to forward an initial proposal for a government with substantial freedoms and democratic guarantees, modeled on our own.

The interesting part is that the majority of the leaders prefer to remain anonymous, so we can know very little about them, the reason being the long Gadhafi tradition (which is apparently still well-financed) of hiring assassins to eliminate his opponents. There are still fears and reports of groups of assassins in Benghazi, and it sounds like no one is likely to feel truly safe as long as Gadhafi is in Tripoli.

[Igel]

6. It presumes it's "their" country.

Again, somebody decides that "the people" to be a subset of the population. At least you didn't express surprise that Sirte didn't spontaneously erupt in an anti-Gaddhafi uprising, but instead had thousands of people flee the rebels' advance when the rebels hoped to take advantage of the US's helping it reclaim never-before-occupied territory in order to prevent the genocide of a town that had continuously been under Gaddhafi's control.

You just don't get your logic any more pretzel-form than that and expect anybody to follow it.

Yeah, Gaddhafi's hands were murderous. In a low-key sort of way, and mostly before we decided he wasn't all that bad after all. The media dug up dirt on him--almost all of it either what the rebels say he's done in the last month or what he did 10, 20 and 40 years ago.

As with the stunning surprises after the Egyptian revolution, surprising only to those who so fervently believed that any report that didn't say the revolutionaries were precisely like them (whether Islamist, secular, working-class, educated, populist, etc., etc.), so it is very likely to be in Libya.

[Newest Reality]

4. Oil! - NT