No, I am advocating a regular handover just like we have seen in Egypt and Tunisia where the presidential family and some close associates are fired and/or prosecuted but the great majority of the...
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No, I am advocating a regular handover just like...
No, I am advocating a regular handover just like we have seen in Egypt and Tunisia where the presidential family and some close associates are fired and/or prosecuted but the great majority of the...
This is not just about benefitting. Google on...
This is not just about benefitting. Google on "Libya tribe" and you will find quite a few stories about killings during Gaddafi's reign that might be revenged.
You seem to find it reasonable that...
Gaddafi does have supporters
The reporting about Gaddafi sounds familiar. Like international outcasts before him (Saddam, Milosevic) he is supposed to be without supporters. But as we were wrong with those people it looks like...
Metrics can be manipulated
Communist Russia was famous for its metrics that didn't work. I am afraid that if we give more attention to metrics in Iraq we will see the same effect. For example if tomorrow some bomb killed 50...
Divide and conquer was a standard in all colonial...
Divide and conquer was a standard in all colonial wars. But you end with a divided country with ethnic tensions: an ideal environment for guerrilla fighters.
In the "good old times" that the...
Al Sadr reminds me most of Hitler in the 1920s....
Al Sadr reminds me most of Hitler in the 1920s. Hitler too used both the democratic path and militia. And just as Al Sadr has the image of the polician who not only talks but also takes care of...