| Competent Leaders? Not After This Example! 10-27-11 mpg Mahmoud Jibril and Qaddafi’s Wealth Redistribution Project A quote...."Colonel Muammar Qaddafi symbolizes many things to many different people around the world. Love or hate the Libyan leader, under his rule Libya transformed from one of the poorest countries on the face of the planet into the country with the highest living standards in Africa. In the words of Professor Henri Habibi...." "When Libya was granted its
independence by the United Nations on December 24, 1951,
it was described as one of the poorest and most backward
nations of the world. The population at the time was not
more than 1.5 million, was over 90% illiterate, and had no
political experience or knowhow. There were no
universities, and only a limited number of high schools
which had been established seven years before
independence. [1]"
"Qaddafi had many grand plans. Many of them were of a pan-African nature. This included the formation of a United States of Africa." Website Editor's Note: This website editor was basically indifferent to the subject of Muammar Qaddafi, knew almost nothing about him, (and still don't), and hardly paid any attention to Libya except during the last year. He was a little zany, a little unpredictable, at least as viewed from this side of the Atlantic, and like many dictators from that part of the world, (many Jamahiriya practicing Libyans would disagree with the term 'dictator'), he was extremely ruthless, although he was less ruthless than most, and certainly much less ruthless than as portrayed by the West's infotainment mass-media-complex. Their portrayal of him was simply a racist, bigoted, stereo-typical, denigrating, caricature of the man. It's truly a wonder they simply didn't just call him a sand-nigger and be done with it. But of course he didn't help set-up and murder three thousand of his own citizens as members of our government did, nor did he invade or subvert numerous other countries (over one hundred and counting by some estimates) on false pretexts and in one particular egregious case of vicious, unchecked, militarism, that of Iraq, help murder over a million people while deliberately destroying that country's, cultural, structural, economic, educational and political systems. So naturally....he just had to be brutally murdered. But let's put all of that aside, many people in the third world have repeatedly cried out for competent leaders, leaders who would devote themselves to the betterment of the people's welfare in their respective countries. Qaddafi's list of accomplishments, and the improvement to the standard of living for Libya's people under his watch, is probably only second to that of China's meteoric rise as an industrial power. And for him to wind up the way he did, after what he did, at the hands of the Western powers, should be a salutary lesson for EVERYONE world wide. If the people of the world allow something like this to stand, and continue to do "business" with the US-NRE, Israel, Britain and France, they need never, ever, bother wishing for better, more competent leaders, or trying to vote such leaders into office, because they're not going to get them. Not after this example. Not if this is allowed to stand. Not ever. - mpg |