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Re: Libya: Ten Things About Gaddafi They Dont Want You To Know by obiak4(m): 11:50am On May 09, 2015 |
socialmediaman:Libyan never complain about gadaffi they were instigated to complain by NATO and the world police BECAUSE GADAFFI REFUSED TO SELL OIL TO THEM FYI ALL COUNTRIES AMERICA HAVE HAD TO "HELP" NEVER GOT WHAT THEY WANTED AFTER THE WAR FOR EXAMPLE KUWAIT,IRAN,IRAQ,AFGHANISTAN,LIBYA,EGYPT, ALL WISHED AMERICAN NEVER STEPPED ON THIER SOIL AMERICA IS LIKE THE BLACK DEATH RAVAGING ANY COUNTRY THEY PASS THROUGH |
Re: Libya: Ten Things About Gaddafi They Dont Want You To Know by TheOtherview: 12:43pm On May 09, 2015 |
socialmediaman: Trust me bro, I was for a time Gaddafi's greatest fan. Copied in below is my response to a discussion that took place elsewhere. I am sure your intervention here, much like mine, is not simply an attempt to assassinate Gaddafi's character but to give a more holistic appraisal of his reign. I first encountered the maverick he was during my youth in Nigeria. We lived in a town close to the border with Republic of Benin <<Guess which one >> - so I had the 'good fortune' of spending 6 hours with other poor souls, at the side of a major highway, as we waited and waited in vain for this African hero (who was much admired and derided ) to drive past. Of course being of a radical bent, that particular episode did not put me off completely. In the years that were to follow, as I grew older, I touted the credentials of this leader because my politics was also largely about "socking it to imperialism". As was expected of me, I dismissed a lot of the concerns that were voiced about his excesses, because doing otherwise would have been considered heretical. Much later; not even Gaddafi's ambivalence towards the 7th Pan-African congress (Kampala) which he tried to dictate terms to, compelled a more objective take. The brother who dissuaded me from honouring a call to go off to Libya for military training is still alive and can attest to the conversation we had, which caused me to reconsider my views for the very first time. I owe it that brother for removing the blinkers from my eyes; although I am somewhat disappointed that, like so many from the same period, he has become some kind of evangelical pastor today. Oh I know what went down in the Caribbean! I also know about Gaddafi's involvement with Anti-Jewish right-wing fascists groups in Canada. Where he evidentially failed in his quest to dominate Caribbean politics, he succeeded in changing the landscape of West Africa by funding macabre insurgent groups like the ones headed by Charles Taylor and others in Liberia; the rebel movement lead by Freddy Sankoh in Sierra Leone; the renegade-turn-president in the Gambia...and so on. Even now what most people fail to understand is that, Nigeria's Boko Haram has his imprint written all over it - as a result of weapons stolen from Libya. Would the wars in Chad and Sudan have lasted for as long as they did, with millions of lives lost without Gaddafi's misadventures? I doubt it! Would Amin have been emboldened to the extent he was, to the point where Nyerere was left with no choice but to clip his demonic wings? I fear not. We are getting into the arena of serious reflection here bro, far away from the simplistic and hackneyed sound-bites armchair revolutionaries would rather peddle. I am more than willing to outline other contradictions which railed against the Pan-African struggle for true emancipation, even as I concede that he paradoxically did more than most of the other jokers who paraded themselves as leaders. Yes I have no problems accepting the good he did, while calling on his hagiographers to allow circumspection. Let's claim "no easy victories" with our analysis. Let's tell the whole truth, as Amilcar Cabral suggested. I have decided to revisit my personal journey here, to show that I understand what informs much of the 'pedestrian account' often provided on these pages. |
Re: Libya: Ten Things About Gaddafi They Dont Want You To Know by TheOtherview: 12:55pm On May 09, 2015 |
Another post I wrote to address the fallacy of a 'single currency' that is often mentioned as the reason for Gaddafi's demise. Anyone who has taken time to study Gaddafi's ambivalence towards many laudable projects which he himself championed at one point or another, would understand why the narrative of a "new currency being singularly responsible for his demise" is simplistic. In my view, this does not even tell half the story. Why would the West suddenly get jittery about Gaddafi's call for the adoption of a single African currency in 2009, when there are hundreds of less contentious African Union (AU) approved initiatives picking up dust in the filing cabinets at Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)? What was so special about this particular call to a group countries that seldom operate with unity of purpose, and with diverse and disparate monetary systems which are not easy to integrate in the short term, that it provided the raison d'etre for Western nations to invade Libya? |
Re: Libya: Ten Things About Gaddafi They Dont Want You To Know by honeric01(m): 1:25pm On May 09, 2015 |
sebali: Tell me what is not monitored in the Uk/US. |
Re: Libya: Ten Things About Gaddafi They Dont Want You To Know by juman(m): 2:01pm On May 09, 2015 |
crixtex: The number 10. Africa is too unorganised to have a single currency. You can't count up to five countries in africa that are on the tract to greatness. There is no way countries managed by very bad leaders can have a single currency. Even nigeria which is the biggest and supposed to be a leading light is still groping in darkness because of bad leaders. Who knows may be nigeria would be borrowing money to pay the workers salaries in the next two years. Do you think any country would like to have the same currency with a badly managed nigeria? Just like almost all other african countries they have bad 'leader'. |
Re: Libya: Ten Things About Gaddafi They Dont Want You To Know by Nobody: 3:27pm On May 09, 2015 |
juman:Yea.. dats true... Africa can never ve a single voice.. buh bro I m still a believer in Nigeria, I urge you to b... |
Re: Libya: Ten Things About Gaddafi They Dont Want You To Know by juman(m): 5:32pm On May 09, 2015 |
crixtex: It is difficult to believe in a country without direction. |
Re: Libya: Ten Things About Gaddafi They Dont Want You To Know by Nobody: 6:16pm On May 09, 2015 |
juman:lool... buh most pple believe in buhari na... lets ve faith bro |
Re: Libya: Ten Things About Gaddafi They Dont Want You To Know by juman(m): 6:22pm On May 09, 2015 |
crixtex: Lets hope the change would not be fake. This is a country of 54 years deliberately destroyed primarily by military generals. |
Re: Libya: Ten Things About Gaddafi They Dont Want You To Know by sebali: 10:04pm On May 09, 2015 |
honeric01: Yes everytin is monitored underground..... Bt on d surface every one enjoys apparent freedom. My friend life is all abt perception |
Re: Libya: Ten Things About Gaddafi They Dont Want You To Know by honeric01(m): 10:56pm On May 09, 2015 |
sebali: "Enjoys apparent freedom"? Like? There is nothing like freedom for someone whose's communication is being monitored right from the day he or she gets his or her SSN. |
Re: Libya: Ten Things About Gaddafi They Dont Want You To Know by khadaffi(m): 11:01pm On May 09, 2015 |
socialmediaman:Its like you dont really know this man. |
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