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Love that video of the kid using the green flag to wipe down cars on AJE. I hadn't been following the conflict that closely lately, but I was stunned after reading that the Nafusa group had annihilated regime resistance throughout the west, and then was equally stunned after they captured and actually held the cities & towns surrounding Tripoli. I like how the NTC was saying they were settling in for a siege while simultaneously (maybe, unconfirmed) smuggling in weapons for a general uprising. I thought I misread the BBC article today when they were saying there was major combat inside the city. That's way more organization than I would have thought possible on the rebel side.
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Just heard about this. Burn in hell you shitheel. I hope they capture Saif alive though (for real this time).
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Brown Moses posted:This is apparently a new It did not. I'm probably some kind of monster.
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video of Gaddafi being all Weekend at Bernies
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etalian posted:Might as well have maintained the status quo instead of going into scary unknown territory. My boss is Israeli, so he didn't exactly share my enthusiasm when were talking about Gaddafi today. He's definitely pro-status quo. I tried to argue that security based on one man being able to strong-arm an entire population isn't really security (see: Egypt), but he wasn't having it. I didn't feel like pressing the point further given that he writes my checks. He did concede that a man who outright trained and supported terrorists (Black September/Lockerbie) is better off gone though. Revolutions are messy, and it's hard to argue that a power vacuum and possible civil war is worthwhile in every situation. Still, dictatorship is bad for long-term stability, and all it will do in the end is create more radicals of any stripe. future ghost fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Oct 21, 2011 |
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etalian posted:It more because dicks such Mubarak made political agreements with Israel and once a revolution takes over there's no guarantee that past agreements will fly with the new populist government. I agree that that's a huge (and worrying, given the attack on the embassy) part of it, but his reasoning was that "they don't understand democracy so they need a dictator to stomp on them" (his words).
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de_dust2 posted:Well backed by the western government and NATO, I would assume it was from them. The ones that weren't looted from loyalist stockpiles were provided by Qatar. All of this is public record. Edit: Oops, this thread moves quickly. Edit2: Didn't know if this was posted yet, but looks like Iran and Turkey are cooperating on the Kurdistan raids: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15407142 future ghost fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Oct 22, 2011 |
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etalian posted:Not to mention skimming billions of dollars every year to go on spending sprees along with his rotten progeny while a majority of his country suffered. A family friend who works for a local production company was whining that they weren't going to get to do a regular show in Barbados this year. I asked him why not, and he said it's usually a Gaddafi event  . Yeah, I don't think that's happening this time around.
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