Libya’s amazing re-entry into the world community continued this week, with the Bush administration’s restoration of diplomatic relations and removal of Libya from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. It’s still hard not to be skeptical about Moammar Gadhafi’s transformation from terrorist to statesman, but it could serve as an example for other global troublemakers with an urge to go legit. Plus, like it or not, what the world needs right now is more oil-rich nations open for business.
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Let’s see. Libya is one of the richest oil nations in the world. Gadhafi could face a Saddam Hussein scenario, or else decide to “get nice” and cooperate like the Saudi and Kuwaiti princes. He stays rich, and the West rewards him for his “enlightenment”. “Do I want to go into a hole in the ground, be captured, and executed, or live in splendor until I am old and gray?” Not exactly a hard choice.
This development is actually founded on China. China is the world’s largest source of labor capital. But this capital cannot be developed without energy capital. China is trying to cut its own energy-obtainment deals. Anglo-American capitalists are playing a geopolitical game of chess. They are trying to send a message, “We want to use your labor capital. We want to help you advance. We want to set up factories in your country. We need you to respect our intellectual property rights. You can’t persist in ripping off Microsoft and Hollywood. Now, we are going to control fossil-fuel energy. Without this, you’re not going anywhere.”
Our capitalists want China to be prosperous–under Anglo-American leadership. When they tried this with Japan, they triggered WWII, but in four years won and humbled the Japanese.
If China gets too “uppity” we cut off their energy. If China cooperates, the energy taps will remain open.
It’s a dicey game of geopolitical chess. But our capitalists think they can win. We’ll see if they are right.
Let’s see if I remember this right; wasn’t he the same guy who was diagnosed paraniod schizophrenic by the CIA, and enough of a threat that we dropped bombs that killed his year-and-a-half old adopted son? And now we’re rehabilitating him because he has oil? Sheesh!
I am happy that the EAGLE is finally addressing this issue. Few EAGLE readers may be aware that the Libyan government has jailed five Bulgarian nurses (and one Palestinian physician) since 1999 for allegedly infecting over 400+ Libyan children with HIV at a hospital in Benghazi, Libya.
The Libyan government allowed at least two of the (all female) nurses to be raped and otherwise tortured into confessing, and went so far as to plant vials of HIV-tainted blood in the nurses’ apartments.
The Bulgarian nurses arrived in Libya in 1998, but experts (the co-discoverers of the HIV virus) have testified that the infection preceded the nurses’ arrival.
The five nurses were tried in a Libyan kangaroo court and in spring 2005 were sentenced to death by firing squad. But through pressure from the U.S., the European Union and other nations, the sentence was overturned last December, and a new trial has been promised but is being delayed by Libya.
What is most interesting is that the group supposedly composed of the parents of the infected children are demanding the exact amount paid by Libya for the Pan Am-Lockerbie explosion and pub bombings in Germany caused by Libyan security agents.
Thus the stalling by the Libyan government in the resumption of a new trial until they can collect the blood money.
(Usually, when one blows a civilian plane out of the sky it is an act of war. However, Quadafi and his two playboy sons are liable not to be judged for the terror they’ve caused, as were Saddam Hussein and his two playboy sons; rather, they’re liable to rake back in the blood loot they’ve paid out for the destruction they caused in Scotland and Germany.)
You can read about it by searching on the Web: Bulgarian nurses Libya.
Unbelievable. We overthrow Saddam Hussein who never actually threatened the US, and we restore diplomatic relations with Libya that blew up an airliner.
Well, at least they’re consistent . . . punish who they when they want for ulterior motives.
Nevermind the US planes shot at while patroling the no-fly zone huh Lefthook?
And never mind the civilian airliner WE blew up for which the Pan Am one was revenge.
Heh, everytime our planes were shot at, we destroyed the missile sites.
And how many of our planes were actually hit?
That would be zero.
Makes you wonder if they were really getting shot at or not, doesn’t it?
Good point lefthook. Kind of like a little motorboat attacking our 7th Fleet.
The Gulf of Tonkin incident . . . ah yes, 58,000 guys had to die for that one lie.
Hey, The Arabs are passing around “nukes” like a “joint” gets passed around Greenwich Village.
Get real, come on, they’ve all got em’. They’re swapping dollars for Gold. They’ve pushed-up Gold to 700 an once, because they don’t trust the dollar any more.
That’s not good news.
Well, hell, if you got oil, aern’t threatening to invade some country, have WMD, threatening the security of another oil-rich country, or refuse to sell your oil the the United States, you can do pretty much what you want. A bunch of innocent Bulgarian nurses mean nothing to this administration.
I need to go back and review the beginning of the Iraq war situation in about 1990. I recall that a U.S. diplomat named April Glassby was sent to Iraq to present options to Saddam Hussein but she garbled the message somehow.
In my opinion and perhaps this is an oversimplification — at that time in about 1990 we should have brought Saddam Hussein to the U.S. to “meet the American people” and a six month orientation at Ft. Leavenworth’s Command and General School to “Americanize” him. This would have been cheap compared to the billions we have spent so far in the misdirected alternative.
Sounds like rove must have been in charge of the libya response to the nurses.