Posted by
KsReaganite on Tuesday, March 01, 2011 7:01:40 PM
International relations are often not that far off from the eccentricities of interpersonal ones: after all, human beings are involved in both. Code words abound in relations, interpersonal or international. Colonel Gaddafi's claim, termed 'delusional' by the State Dept., that 'my people love me' and 'they will die to save me' are just code words. Given that I have known Libyans in childhood and even spent a couple of years in the now famed city of Zawia as a child, I cannot but feel anguished by the suffering of those folks.
My people love me is the leaderspeak for they cannot wait to throw me out...just like a guy means I have a crush on another when he says It is not you, it is me (in fairness to guys, girls of the same type have their own version when someone 'better' or from the past comes along, I love you but do not feel a romantic connection). Unfortunately for the good, decent people of Libya, such convoluted nonsense is given credulity at least in some quarters. As I have said before, and seems Senators McCain and Lieberman agree, noble sounding coded platitudes of Gaddafi should be treated just as they ought to be: with the contempt and revulsion they deserve. He may have been a good decent man of a good decent pedigree when he took office in 1969, but today Colonel Gaddafi is nothing more than the epitome of dishonorable and delusional. Such men and women may be pitied, but should not be trusted. They will sell their people, their countries, and literally their mothers for a dime to feel high and mighty.