Reply #75: How Libya is making smart people turn stupid — updated

[tabatha]

I guess this would be an example of what Alexander Cockburn describes as a “tsunami of breathless reports suggests that Misrata is enduring travails not far short of the siege of Leningrad in World War 2.”

Cockburn — who obviously thinks that Gaddafi has been getting a bumb rap in the Western media — says “I’d really like to see an objective account of Qaddafi’s allocation of oil revenues versus the US’s, in terms of social improvement.” Does he imagine that such an account would reveal that Gaddafi’s rule has been benign and socially enlightened?

Anyone who still believes that Libya is in the grip of a civil war should watch the following video in order to better understand what it means to be living under the control of a man who wants to brainwash his “supporters” into believing that he, his country and God are indivisible. There’s nothing benign about an authoritarian personality cult which strips children and adults of their right and capacity to express themselves.

http://youtu.be/McjsU-WTnNk
Kudos to Al Jazeera’s Inside Story who made a great editorial call by airing this Libyan report without additional commentary. It really does speak for itself.

http://warincontext.org/2011/04/16/how-libya-is-making-smart-people-turn-stupid/

(These three have been posted as a sub-thread, because they address those who are in effect supporting Gaddafi - interesting to have come across all three in a short amount of time via #libya twitter feeds.)