Khaddafi,I don’t use his title because I don’t quit understand it, isn’t that big of a threat to anyone but his own people.....these days.That doesn’t mean he is either useful,friendly or necessary for the war on terror.
Whoever replaces him will be too busy rebuilding Libya to export terror or support anyone.Besides the way the war on terror is going,most Muslim countries will either break for actual freedom or the despots we tolerate will eventually back the terrorists.It would be much easier for tyrants like Gaddafi to back Islamics insurgents,as it looks like they are here to stay,then to crack down on them.
Tyrants like him go with whoever looks like he is going to keep them in power,the West couldn’t protect him if they wanted to.
It is better for a popular revolt to oust him,which would be a major blow to the left who have been buddies with him since Mitterand(ex-President of France),then for him to decide one day that terrorism is one industry he needs to go back into supporting.
It is unfair to hit him as he has disarmed some during the Bush years but he should have updated the way he dealt with protests along with disposing of his arsenal.That is how it works.
Muslims do not exist politcaly as individuals, only as a group. Uma does not subscribe to notions of Western democracy. Lebanon before civil war and Libya are closest you can get to democracy in a Muslim state. Turkish "democracy" is only for the show.
Let's say for arguments sake, that a Muslim state decides to follow your advice and imports American model of democracy and elects president.Three years later, new democratically elected president wages war without getting approval from the newly established Congress, in violation of newly adopted Constitution.
How would you call such system - Democratic or Dictatorship? How you would call such president - democratic or dictator?
What would be our remedy then - bombing their tv stations so their President could not deliver his speech, murdering their civilians or offing such president?
I believe that you can see the mud Barakah Hussein Al Amriki has dragged U.S. into.