On 3/13/12 9:59 PM, ken hanly wrote:
Never mind the militias Eastern Libya is already declaring itself
autonomous. Officials in the east will be happy to make good deals
with
oil companies.
It was Vittorio Emanuele and Benito Mussolini who invented "Libya."
In all the many millennia of history Cyrenaica and Tripolitania were
never parts of a single country--even under Rome.
When the imperialists recreated "Libya" after 1945 the Cyrenaicans
(including "King" Idriss) were forced to accept undesired unity with
Tripolitania and the Fezzan. and this was before the great oil fields
had been discovered, as far as they (but not the Seven Sisters) knew...
So what grounds has anybody outside Cyrenaica to object if the
Cyrenaicans, who made the revolution, demand autonomy tantamount to
independence?
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
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