"Ghaddafi is crazy" is what I hear all around me: in the news, papaers around friends.... well: dah.... he is the guy that actually lived in a tent when he was on international meetings. No matter if it was France, England, USA or Sweden. Who had ever a thought that he was normal? And now the world is chocked about his actions in "his" country when there is a risk that he will loose control. I am not chocked at all. I presumed every step that he has taken until now and can even foresee much worse actions from his side. He is (and always has been) crazy. What I am wondering about is what happened to the rest of the world? Since when does FN engage in a country's internal affairs? Have a look at Egypt, Algeria, Bahrain... we saw the comments but did we see any action? NO. Well, why not, one might ask.
Let me have one guess: petrol. None of the countries listed above has any petrol that could be interesting. Egypt ownes gas, but 30% of their gas-deliveries go directly to USA and 40% of Israel's gas is delivered by Egypt below market price. One can see why no government had any interest to disturb this economical balance of power. On teh other side you can see that Lybia ownes oil, petrol. And Lybia sells oil. As far as I know there are no internal contracts with USA, Israel or any other UN-nation. Could this be a reason why the western hemisphere is in such a rage: they saw a possibility, a possibility to make some big money on the poor people of Lybia.
And please, do not misunderstand me, I do not want to see Ghaddafi left as Lybia's leader. I just wonder why the world makes such a big difference between different countries with the same problems. And I hope that they will not leave the lyvian people in a chaos that can be compared to Irak.
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