Who's next?

Formerly a new/old buddy of the US and recently feted in the UK.

These dictators need to pick their friends better.

Too stupid to take just a small percentage of the 700 thousand billion dollars he had accumulated and move the family to Miami.

No leader of a country should hold the office for more than 8 years. If they weren't dictators at the start, chances are they have achieved that lucrative role after 8 years.  If they refuse to go they should be shown the clip of Khadaffi being dragged off the truck, and then given a chance to reconsider retirement to Belize with their wives, their girlfriends, and their horrible children.  If they still refuse, the noose and the lamp post are waiting.

We were already cuddling up to Gadaffi and doing a roaring trade with his oil and rendition flights. We are not set to gain anything we didn’t already have oil wise, unless we can do a Nigeria on them, in which case the people will be much worse off and will soon be dreaming of the good old days when Gaddaffi was in power. As Africa and the Arab world goes, the life expectancy and living conditions under Gadaffi were quite high. Of course, not by Western standards, but by second world shit holes not bad at all with an average life expectancy of 77 which is much higher than some inner city districts in Scotland, Wales and the North of England.

As Sammy aptly points out the fault lines of rebellion are more widely sown, even in our liberal democracies. My bet is on revolutionary overthrow by the army in Greece very shortly, before the communists take over, or are voted into power. The average person there with an income reduced from 1200 to 700 Euros a month in less than a year and now being bled some more is likely to incite rebellion and they may well lynch an unwary politician they get their claws on. I mean, wouldn’t you?

This sucker’s going down to quote Bush and not necessarily limited to the Arab world.

I consider both Greece and Italy as at risk of fascism by the back door and are most definitely off my holiday list.

Last edited by NJS (2011-10-21 06:27:14)

^Africa is a different matter altogether and does actually tend, with mismanagement, corruption and natural disasters (famine), to be a place of much misery (look at Zimbabwe, for example) and I wish that we all wasted less and gave African more.

As for my voting practices: I haven't voted for ages and doubt that I should bother again, since I entirely agree that modern governments use far more control-freakery than fascists and bolshies and modern politics seems to be about who can fool the most people into believing that this group of sh1ts, as opposed to that one, will do the least harm.