Well, there is that little matter of Ghaddafi being behind state sponsored terrorism like the Lockerbie bombing and the bombing of Marine barracks. You may not remember it, but Reagan sent cruise missiles into Ghaddafi's compound before (without Congressional authorization, btw) and killed members of his household including his dog. There is a pretty long history of animosity between Ghaddafi and the US.
Judah On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > From the US perspective...what problem did they have with Gaddafi?? > > He was handling the oil situation just fine...he was relatively friendly to > the West... > > was there some policy that the West wanted to implement which he refused? > This is why all those dictators are in power in the Middle East anyways. > They all agreed to toe the line in exchange for being left alone. They > arrange decent deals with Western companies etc. for drilling and > distribution of oil. Most of them were installed and supported by the West > initially. > > I still don't see, from a Western point of view, what was the issue with > Gaddaffi in particular. It isn't as if any country at a government level > really gives two figs about the Libyan or The Egyptian people. > Is it that the media coverage was such that they felt politically they > needed to respond in some way? > > The other thing is, what happened to the international arms merchants? > Aren't they more than capable of arming the rebels? I mean...that's what > they do isnt it? (Lord of War) :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:335676 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
