“Perspective. It’s all about perspective.”
Your anaylsis is a good one and on target. I hired out as a freelance contractor during the Libyan civil war to an Israeli business company and was offered the Israeli view of the situation.
First, the militias involved in the consulate attack are not powerful. After the interim government was established, the council brought in Osama al-Juwali, the most respected militia leader in Libya who commanded the largest militia, and the government named him defense minister.
He organized the local militias and brought them into the new Libyan army.
It’s a fact that there are other militias who refused to lay down their arms. These are mostly small jihadist groups who want to establish a Muslim government.
After Kaddhafi fell, a pack of hothead jihadists started to cause trouble in Tripoli. These were mostly 16 to 17 year-old 30 IQ punks who were looking for free stuff. Think of them as equivalent to our big city street thugs who think like Obuma if he had sons. al-Juwali sent in the Libyan army to clear up that mess. He also sent out his army to beat back jihadists who tried to take over an airport near Tripoli.
From my perspective, I think we have a pro-western government in Libya that needs to be supported and nurtured. Our surveys in Tripoli of the citizenry, post-Kaddahfi, show that most people are pro-free enterprise in the classical and ancient Arabic sense. They want Tripoli to rival Dubai, the “Gold City.”
I’m out of the loop now, so my view only covers the immediate post-Kaddhafi situation.
Take care, FRiend.
Thanks SergeantDave. That makes sense. All that we know to this point fits well into the model you’ve just laid out there.
Even if a government military member or even a few, were complicit in the events on that night, it wouldn’t mean that the government was thrilled with it.
As I’ve said to others we’ll see how this plays out.
I have ranged from saying this might be an United States of Iran we’re seeing develop here, all the way to hoping we were seeing signs of a pro-Western movement.
I have leaned the US of Iran, bit I’d sure love to be proven wrong.