Premature.
By now we have learned enough about the rebels being not shy to commit crimes against humanity like Gaddafi does, so we should act with self-restraint on legitimating them. We should leave it to declaring that we no longer see Gaddafi as legitimate, then we should wait until they sorted it out who wins and who loses.
And the winner then we can examine wether or not he deserves our respect, or not. That Gaddafi does not deserve our respect, does not mean the rebels automatically deserve it.
The revoluation in Egypt so far has stalled, with the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood becoming strongly organised, and the military demonstrating increasing interest in not losing its power. In Tunisia the Islamic fundamentalists are widely feared to claim power. In Gaza and Lebanon, democratic elections brought fundamentalist warmongers to power. In Turkey, democracy is being hollowed out and the fundamentalists are on the march through all levels of the state'S institutions, deleting and reversing the effects of all secular intentions of the Kemalistic experiment. - But in Libya we expect it all to be different, all of a sudden? Why...??? I think we have lost our marbles.
We should leave it to air bombardments of Gaddafi troops. No weapon deliveries. No interference. No pledges of loyalty with the other side. I said that from the beginning of the Libya war.
German government has secretly developed plans to deliver the Saudis 200 Leopard-2A6+ tanks, a u-turning on German military delivery policy of recent decades. I got a hickup when reading it for the first time a week or ten days ago. They say it is a way to support the free, libertarian, humanistic Islamic world against Iran, and that Saudi Arabia is a close ally in the fight against Islamic terror.
Yeah. The US has Pakistan. Germany discovers Saudi Arabia in a similiar role, it seems.
The biggest financier of Islamic terror world-wide, whose culture centres and King Fahd academy in Germany is under surveillance of the office for the protection of the constitution - our "ally". Yeah, sure.
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Last edited by Skybird; 07-16-11 at 02:56 PM.
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