http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/world/africa/30benghazi.html
This is one of those news stories that doesn’t say anything, but also says everything. The meaning is found in between the lines and what isn’t said.
The male youth of Benghazi are frustrated. “Drifting” cars is a long standing pasttime in the Middle East, and has resumed being the way the young men get rid of their angst. They are being kept away from the “front” as they don’t know what they’re doing. They have no jobs as there is no work. So they sit around smoking hashish and thinking about the day that Free Libya will give them their free BMW.
In unrelated news, the government of Free Libya is broke. Production from the oil fields that feed the small refinery in Tubruk has ceased due to the government forces controlling the surrounding towns using 4×4 trucks that NATO can’t attack from the air. The last of the crude oil has been shipped and the refinery stands empty. The exported oil doesn’t even cover the cost of the refined oil being imported.
It’s much easier to destroy a country than to run one.
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
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Boredom is Exhilaration
“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”