Libya’s toothless interim government, led by Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani, announced late Thursday it had tendered its resignation to the elected parliament, days after a rival Islamist administration was created.
The interim government, operating in the east of the country to avoid the Islamist militias which have a strong presence in Tripoli, said it “presented its resignation to the elected parliament”, which is based in Tobruk, 600 kilometres east of the capital, also for security reasons.
The Libyans are sooo lucky that NATO saved them from the clutches of the Evil Gadaffy Duck. Freed from the relative peace of an oppressive police state, they are now able to pursue their tribal rivalries and rape, plunder and pillage as they choose. Now they can spend their time warring on those that are not of their tribe and destroy their airports and cities. Soon, they too can become a failed state, just like Somalia.
This is the fruits of “Responsibility to Protect.”
Look at the bright side. The European oil companies made some wonderful deals with the new government for the rights to Libyan oil. Now if they can only pump it and ship it without too much bloodshed, kidnapping, and brigandage?
The idea to over throw Ghaddafi was promoted by the French public intellectual, philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy. He sold the idea to then Pres. Sarkozy.
Bernard Henri-Levy was in contact with a group of secular Muslims and nationalists. They wanted to over throw Gaddafi and establish a Libya more like Tunisia.
So with France in the lead, Western Europe and some support from the U.S. and even Canada, he was over thrown.
The problem is that the jihadi Muslims are more numerous and more militarily capable.
Again, jihad not being nationalist but only recognizing anything but where it’s the house of war or the house of Islam(their version)attracts foreign jihadis, too.
It’s been downhill ever since.
Gaddafi’s soldiers of fortune the Touregs, took their arms and invaded their home territory in Mali. France then had to send in the Foreign Legion to prevent them from taking over Mali.
If the West wants to see the secular and “moderate” Muslims to win. Thus to keep the jihadis from attacking the West, they will have to babysit the process for a few decades. Think post war Japan and South Korea.
Defeating a rival civilization will take 100 years or more. It’s them or us.
If you think that is expensive, calculate the cost of a world war and putting 10 percent of our populations into uniform, as we did in WWI and WW2!
Freedom isn’t free. Freedom won’t be successfully defended on the cheap.
Could we isolate the Middle-East?
Not without the West and developing world being energy independent of them.
Fracking for freedom!
Remember, the OPEC oil crisis of 1973, the embargo on oil exports and the price sky rocketing. That was the beginning of OPEC being able to finance jihad.
European intellectuals can come up with fanciful theories, but their actual grasp on reality is often a little sketchy. (I’m being kind.)