When I said that I was aping an example of what the state department or western media would say, which is why it’s in quotes.
Rest assured the US is not done with it’s project in Libya, there’s just too much money being left on the table. Sooner or later there will be some liberal with a bleeding heart for the poor “savage nobles” of Libya.
I’m sure they are already looking for their version of a more amenable and controllable Gaddafi. They just have to do a little historical revisionism to explain that it wasn’t the “despotism” that was the problem, but the man himself, and that the strongman leader is the only thing that works in Libya.
Gaddafi was not above criticism and had eccentricities, but calling him a “despotic madman” is pure vibes-based politics.
When I said that I was aping an example of what the state department or western media would say, which is why it’s in quotes.
Rest assured the US is not done with it’s project in Libya, there’s just too much money being left on the table. Sooner or later there will be some liberal with a bleeding heart for the poor “savage nobles” of Libya.
I’m sure they are already looking for their version of a more amenable and controllable Gaddafi. They just have to do a little historical revisionism to explain that it wasn’t the “despotism” that was the problem, but the man himself, and that the strongman leader is the only thing that works in Libya.