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"Even allowing for the uneasy relationship between reporting and reality from both sides in Libya’s civil war, Muammar Gaddafi’s regime seems on its last legs. Feeling jubilant over the downfall of Libya’s tyrant wouldn’t be a hard task as a rule. A particularly loathsome specimen even by Middle East standards, Gaddafi’s departure would have felt like a net gain for humanity as well as for his own country in 1969, when he seized power; in the 1970s, when he was murdering his rivals and opponents; in the 1980s, when he was sponsoring and facilitating terrorism all over the world; and in the 1990s and 2000s, when he was merely assassinating dissidents while pretending to turn over a new leaf.
But, except for token shows of force, no one took him on. He was virtually rehabilitated, even fussed over at the 2009 G8 summit by the very NATO leaders who spent the last few months trying to dethrone and preferably pulverize him.
It may happen now — it probably will — but it may not do any good. The “Arab Spring,” a phenomenon that has aroused the enthusiasm of many, has aroused mainly apprehension in me.
On February 23, I wrote that “to optimistic observers, especially to eastern seaboard liberal-democratic types, the ouster of Tunisian tyrant Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in January amounted to lighting a long fuse to blow up all tyrannies in the Middle East. Pessimistic observers agree that the fuse has been lit, except the ensuing explosions aren’t going to herald something better, such as democracy, but worse, such as theocracy.”
My concern only increased when I saw much of the Western media not being able to tell the difference between a popular uprising and Egypt’s military ridding itself of Hosni Mubarak. I wrote that the question to ask wasn’t “Will the protesters win?” but “Will the protesters win if they do?” The answer seemed to me very much in doubt in Egypt, and increasingly so as the Arab Spring wore on. A month later, on March 30, I wrote that for the Obama administration “going into Libya, win or lose, may dwarf all foreign policy errors of the Bush administration combined.”"
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/08/23/george-jonas-could-libya%E2%80%99s-next-rulers-be-worse-than-gaddafi/
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