Tuesday, March 01, 2016

Remember King Idris (of Libya)?

Thanks to this man, the son of a goat-herder of Berber descent, who seized power, in what was acknowledged at the time (1969) to have been a "bloodless coup," we don't have to recall King Idris. But there are things about Libya under the leadership of his successor--a strange, visionary, exuberant, moralistic man--that we ought not to forget: That by the time (2011), when, targeting particularly the people and the infrastructure of Libya, NATO bombed Libya back to the Stone Age, it had the highest per capita income ($8315) of any nation in Africa.  Education was free and compulsory in primary through secondary school.  University education was free; as were housing, medical care and electricity. And, due to the largest irrigation system in the world,  called by its author, Gaddafi, the "Great Man-Made River," there was abundant fresh water, for all the citizens (and farmers!), such as there had never been before in the history of Libya (even when it was Carthage), and such as it will never be again--for the NATO bombers utterly, systematically destroyed it.  God fucking damn us and, most especially, Mme. Hillary Clinton.  May she fry in Hell forever!

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