Posted on 10/03/2011 6:58:39 AM PDT by Former Fetus
Before I left for Libya to cover Moammar Gadhafi's flight from Tripoli and its aftermath, my roommate in Cairo remarked that I didn't look excited to be going.
"I'm not sure what else I can learn about war," I said.
I wanted to believe the narrative I had been getting from news coverage of the Libyan revolution - that this revolution was spotless, clean, was a replacement for the murderous dictatorship that came before. But too many years of war disabuses any rational observer of such romanticism. I had covered the war in Iraq and the violence in Lebanon and I knew: Violence has its own logic, and political catharsis frequently confuses freedom and democracy with mob rule.
When I arrived in Libya, it was easy to believe the narrative. The rebels, now revolutionaries, shouted "Allahu Akbar" - Allah is great - to one another at checkpoints, as a greeting coming and going, and as an affirmation of anything they think is good.
During my first week or two in Libya I found it an affable salutation, and an inclusive one - Libyans are (almost all) Muslims. Encouraged, I participated, heartily adopting it at checkpoints and in response to questions about "what I thought" of the Libyan revolution.
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The reporter needs more wandering.
That would be soon to be dead gay men.
If saying Allahu Akbar makes it easier to pass checkpoints
mannned by hotheaded youts with avtomats, it seems like a good idea. I wouldn’t be gushing about it to my readers though.
What you say is true. ... so why does America tolerate American resources being spent on expanding the caliphate?
It was just a few short years and we were fighting them. Now we side with them, for the devils sake. Obviously the people have not thought of the consequences. Obama has totally changed the war trajectory and timetable bringing the upcoming war into next week!
What's that old, completely true saying? "The first casualty of war is the truth." In fact, wars slaughter the truth.
Not all who wander are lost.
Some are just stupid.
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LOL!
Years ago when I worked for a rent-a-rig international oil company, I was slated to go to Nigeria (luckily it didn't pan out).
The old-timers said to take along a half dozen or so cheap wristwatches. The deal was that when you ran into an impromptu road block, they took your watch before letting you pass. No watch, no pass and maybe get shot.
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