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Originally posted by dario86
reply to post by JennaDarling
It looks very nice on the paper but in reality they break half of the laws they made.
And to who can we complain?
Which court can punish whole NATO?
I see only 2 solutions at the moment:
1) US and EU people raising their voice
2) Russian and China making political actions.
For this quality—this institutional potential—Gaddafi feared they might coalesce into groups opposing his rule. So, during the first two decades after the 1969 coup, he tried to erase their influence, arguing that they were an archaic element in a modern society. But as their power proved enduring, and as the challenges to his rule grew in the 1980s and ’90s, he gradually and willy-nilly brought them back into his fold. In a brilliant move that co-opted tribal elders, many of whom were also military commanders, he created the Social Leadership People’s Committee, through which he could simultaneously control the tribes and segments of the country’s military.
Originally posted by kro32
Ghaddafi killed people so he should die.
An eye for an eye.
Originally posted by aorAki
Originally posted by kro32
Ghaddafi killed people so he should die.
An eye for an eye.
So, I'm guessing this applies to all who kill?
but I would say that there does seem to be some evidence that he has also been a force for good in Libya
Hitler helped the Germans too right? thats laughable
Second, and more importantly, the book lacks a surprising amount of detail. We are informed that a small group accomplished a coup against King Idris in September, 1969, but we are told almost nothing else: where did the coup happen? How did it happen? Perhaps a palace was stormed, or military installations seized? We are not even told of the fate of King Idris -- was he executed, banished, imprisoned, or left alone? These are all natural questions when dealing with something as momentous as the coup that changed Libya from a shaky kingdom to a radical, terrorist-sponsoring anti-state.
Ever since 1969 - or perhaps more precisely since the publication of The Green Book - Libya has pursued a policy of statelessness that, at least in theory, puts all powers in the hand of the people. Ironically, as statelessness was pursued, virtually all economic activity within the country came under state control.
By the late 1990s observers suggested that Qaddafi had become interested in Libya’s participation in the international system not as a “rogue state,” as the United States had labeled the nation, but as a law-abiding member.
Ghaddafi killed people so he should die. An eye for an eye.