That’s the latest word from Qadhafi as NATO continues to attack and turn Qadaffi’s compound into rubble.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/08\/world\/africa\/08tripoli.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp<\/a><\/p>\n I continue to observe that Libya seems to be going out of its way to not attack the attacking\u00a0NATO forces.\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps Libya is\u00a0that impotent, or maybe there is another purpose to Kadaffi’s strategy to play dead (other than against the Libyan “rebels”).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The assumption seems to be that if NATO gets lucky and kills Qadhafi, that Libya will do a “Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead” dance and celebrate their liberation from Evil.\u00a0\u00a0 That’s not my sense at all.\u00a0\u00a0 Who is going to bring control back to Tripoi?\u00a0\u00a0 NATO?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Troops and police\u00a0from East Libya?\u00a0\u00a0 The UN?<\/p>\n I don’t doubt that NATO will demand reparations for the costs of destroying Libya and take the money directly out of the Libyan treasury’s “frozen” assets.\u00a0<\/p>\n President Obama seems to want Germany to play the role of North African global police force.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Unlike England, Italy and France, Germany doesn’t have a history of colonial rule in North Africa – but that is also problematic if you’re trying to occupty\u00a0a country without a common language between the occupiers and the occupied.\u00a0\u00a0 Very few Libyans speak German, and few Germans speak Arabic.<\/p>\n Germans also have 60 years of the U.S. telling them they can’t be trusted to have their own military forces again –\u00a0other than for self defense.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s a huge psychological barrier for the Germans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That’s the latest word from Qadhafi as NATO continues to attack and turn Qadaffi’s compound into rubble. http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/08\/world\/africa\/08tripoli.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp I continue to observe that Libya seems to be going out of its way to not attack the attacking\u00a0NATO forces.\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps Libya … Continue reading