[buck jarret]

Libya has a lot of oil (most in Africa, more than Nigeria) that needs little refining and there is probably a lot more of it to find.

[river rat]

"Where are we going with our relationship?"

The idiot should consider himself ahead of the game to be alive and still boinking his security guards..

[Alter Kaker]

You clearly left out a few keywords.

I searched for articles on Qaadafi and didn't find this article!

[NurdlyPeon]

Well, he has been behaving himself for the last few years. And ya, he's not exactly the greatest guy in the world, but if he's looking to expand peaceful relations with the U.S., I'm missing the snag here, other than just some old pissed-offness.

[SunkenCiv]

Col. Gadhafi is threatening to freeze Libya's rapprochement with the U.S. amid feelings that Washington didn't follow through with the economic and political incentives that were promised.

We really need to send some Hellfire incentives while he's eating dinner, or executing another Lebanese imam.

[budwiesest]

was supposed to blaze a path for other rogue states, principally North Korea and Iran.

We need a Hollywood mock 'nuke' that can be dropped over countries such as these as a reminder of the things-to-come if they continue their rougeshness. Parachute dropped and very rotund- a mock 'fatboy' just for snicks.

[bpjam]

Personally, I’d like to know what we have been doing to improve the situation after Libya turned over their program. Bush gets ZERO credit for disarming another arab nuclear program and he appears to be avoid mentioning it publicly.

Not that I take the word of any news story about Libyan diplomats, but I would be pretty pissed off if we’ve not pushed Libya closer to being an ally and asset so we don’t have to having them on the other side of the fight again.