RE: The Sahel, a pile of steaming shit. Was Gadaffi right?
January 30, 2013 at 2:04 pm
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2013 at 2:08 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(January 30, 2013 at 12:10 pm)Minimalist Wrote: The French seem to be doing a pretty good job.
My oracle says that with France's dire fiscal condition and increasing alienation from Germany, The French will not have much staying power and would be out of there before year's end.
(January 30, 2013 at 10:44 am)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote: "The lands of north Africa will becomethe home of Al Quaida, chaos and jihad will come over the region!"
Gaddafi shouted this into the cameras at a pressconference whilest rebel forces were closing in onto Tripolis.
And now, one may almoust say that he might have been right.
Of course he was right, not that he was any champion of civilization himself. The fall of the authoritarian regimes of Egypt and Libya has been the greatest boon to Al Queda since the Soviet Union vacated Afghanistan, and it would be surpassed when Syria falls and El Quada can use it as a base to generate even more grass level arab/Islamic support by pricking directly at Israel.
