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Originally Posted by wehateporn
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Yeah, random youtube videos created by anonymous users, overlaid with drum and bass soundtracks are always a credible source of information.
We live in the information age, it doesn't take long to gather some semblance of truth on the situation. Vice actually went to Libya and did a pretty good gonzo documentary on the whole situation:
http://www.vice.com/vice-news/the-re...ya-full-length
The thing is the West was better off with brutal dictators like Gadaffi in power. Now what? A stable democratic successor regime? An Islamic government? A combination of the two? Or a failed state? The last option probably is the most likely, which means either a long-term Western occupation ? which would spur an Islamist insurgency ? or a quick Western get-the-fuck-out which would leave Libya to the best organized portion of the resistance, the Islamists. (NB: Hows that for a lose-lose situation?)
Both of these bad options are in the future and so remain avoidable. But the West already has suffered an enormous loss by choosing to try to destroy Gaddafi?s regime, which the Wikileaks? documents show was an anchor of the West?s counter-al-Qaeda efforts in the Maghreb.