CIA and MI6 helped Gaddafi and now they turned against him

[Jeneral2885]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/03/cia-libya-terror-suspect-renditions

Old friends turned enemies. Sounds so much like the West cosying up to Saddam int he 1980s and then hating him.

[CJvR]

1. You don't...

...think people should clean up after themselves?

[DJ13]

2. See what happens when a country denounces the US dollar?

[Jeneral2885]

5. ???

Don't get you.

[SugarShack]

9. We have done this with Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden and all of the rest!

[eleny]

3. Can you spell "Noriega"?

[quaker bill]

6. or "Somoza"

[malaise]

4. That's the norm

Make you and break you!!!

[bemildred]

7. The disobedient must be punished as an example to the rest. nt

[killbotfactory]

8. I don't understand?

What did Gaddafi do?

[SoCalDem]

10. The fact that so many middle east despots were aging, made the time ripe for change

perhaps we had supported many of them over the last 3 decades, but the prospect of them passing their position on to their children was just too much for the local people to bear.. These people probably saw this particular time in history and the one last change to get something different, and our preferences of the past were just that.,.in the past.

I don't think the US was all that crazy about having to deal with Qaddafi's son or Mubarek's son.

What used to "work", no longer does, and even though it's "messy", it's what had to happen.

[coalition_unwilling]

11. Or how we kissed up to Osama bin Laden and his merry band

of freedom fighters back when Carter's National Security Advisor Brzezinski was using them to lure the USSR into its own Vietnam.

I mean, really now, what's the death of 3,000 New Yorkers compared to the fall of the Iron Curtain? That's how the global geo-strategists think.

[Jeneral2885]

12. Rebel demands apology

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/04/libyan-commander-demands-apology