Posted on 01/27/2013 8:37:32 AM PST by kristinn
Full headline: Before he was overthrown and killed, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi warned jihadists would conquer northern Africa
During the dying days of his four decade rule, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi cast an ominous prophecy. If his regime fell, jihadists would subjugate northern Africa, inflicting widespread violence and terror.
Al-Qaeda considers all the people to be infidels, Mr. Gaddafi declared in a speech weeks before NATO began its military intervention in Libya. They deem all people their enemies. They know nothing but killing.
The Islamists would pour in from Afghanistan, Algeria, and Egypt, he warned, saying, These are beasts with turbans.
Now, with France locked in a battle with extremists in Mali; with al-Qaeda-linked groups carrying out a massive hostage taking in Algeria, and with Britain, Germany, and France telling their citizens to leave Libya because of an unspecified threat, the man many considered mad may not have been so crazy after all.
The irony is, he was right, said Christian Leuprecht, Royal Military College and Queens University political studies associate professor.
Here we have a situation thats out of control, said Abdel Kerim Ousman, Royal Military College political science associate professor. Gaddafi actually said, if you want to destroy [Libya], the result would be the taking over by the jihadists.
While Mr. Gaddafi may have been right, many blame the West for not anticipating what would happen after the fall of Libya.
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BTW kristinn, why in tarnation would Bush be concerned with Iraq or Muslims after announcing he was going have a "Compassionate" war with the religion of peace? Compassion for everyone except out troops that is.
Not enough kristinn?
Bush allowed more Muslims into the U.S. after 911, than the previous two decades...All this while welcoming in millions of people from Mexico illegally, all during war time...
How stupid can the American people be kristinn?
The Won is not a Muslim; if he were Muslim, he would have to worship Allah.
The Won worships noone but himself.
He is, however, undoubtedly, by his own words, a Muslim sympathizer.
At least with regard to the Middle East congress critters are playing catch-up. They are operating under an old paradigm which says “Dictator bad” and “anybody opposing dictator good” - I think many supported the overthrow of Qaddafi, Mubarak etc and therefore supported Clinton in this pursuit - including Republicans.
Congress is full of addled old men who either can’t accept that they are wrong and the world has changed in front of them (and left them behind)or they are leftist freaks who have no moral center and will support anything their side does.
Mel
And his two enemies were the jihadis/Saudi-sponsored-Wahabbis and the Iranis (he called them "Those Persian flies that must be swatted")
Saddam thought of himself as a latter-day Ashurbanipal who would conquer Iran and rule over the Arabs
The Saudis hated him
If we had let Saddam take Kuwait, then he would have threatened the Saudis, preventing them spending money on arming the Taliban and AlQaeda and getting them to give him money to fight Iran
And yes, he would have restarted the war with Iran, only with a lot more money and he would have killed a lot more Shia fanatics
Instead, by posting troops in Saudia we gave AlQ the pretext (infidels on the "holy land" of Saudia) and the Saudis gave money to set up Wahabbi schools etc...
Gulf War I led to GW II, Afghanistan, 9/11, the radicalization of Pakistan, etc. etc.
you are correct about Syria — Assad’s regime is better for Christians, women, even for Israel compared to the alternative...
This is true, and Iran has become a lot bolder, since they no longer have Sadaam sitting there, just over the fence.
All part of the plan.
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