jefjef wrote:radiojake wrote:jefjef wrote:Gaddafi threatens West with al Qaeda alliance
Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 12:28 [IST]
Tripoli, Mar 16: In a clear sign of desperation to cling on to power, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has threatened US and other western powers, to not to attack his country or else he would ally with the al Qaeda to rage a "holy war".
Gaddafi's 41-year old regime has been threatened by Egypt-inspired revolts which have turned violent with the protesters sticking to their demand of his ouster and he in turn using his military to crush the rebels. Till date, nearly 4,000 people are feared to be killed by the bombings by Libyan warplanes and tanks.
Are you just making stuff up now? Where is this link?
Dear anti-American,
There are many links from many sources in re of this Godaffy threat. It was something you could have discovered with little effort, but as usual, an American was asked to accomplish what someone else could and should. Here is that requested link of that "made up" quote.
http://news.oneindia.in/2011/03/16/gadd ... d0120.html MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Many well wishes to you and yours and may you live in peace and safety in a world FREE of terrorism!
@jefjef
My comment was in regards to the underlined. (So I should've been more clear).
It's ridiculous because what's the alternative? A world "FREE of terrorism" through the US invading Afghanistan, where the Taliban were letting Al-Qaeda use some remote mountains as their area of operations? Saudi Arabia supplies tons of funds to such terrorist groups, so why not invade them? Obviously, the US can't given the strong economic and political ties between the two countries, so what does the US do instead?
Invade Afghanistan which after decades of civil war finally had at least some form of government that appeared to be able to unify them enough. The US failed to even address the main source of funding for such groups by ignoring Saudi Arabia, so instead they threaten other countries like Iran and Iraq with declarations of war. The US since the Persian Gulf War went on occasional bombing campaigns to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq for a decade until leading up to Persian Gulf War II. Then the US actually invades them, is responsible for killing 200,000+ civilians, and is responsible for causing this ongoing civil war in Iraq and in Afghanistan, which has been resulting in more deaths.
How is the US imposing a world free of terrorism?
The US has destroyed the livelihood and standards of living for millions of Iraqis, Kurds (through double-crossing them in the Persian Gulf War, and during the Persian Gulf War II, enabling the Turks to use US-operated airbases in order to bomb their Kurds), Iranians, Somalians, Vietnamese, and on and on.
Pakistan is a main hub of anti-American terrorist groups, and once again the US is playing dangerous games over there. By bombing some "terrorist" groups and a lot of civilians, the US ends up aligning anti-American sentiment among a lot of Pakistan.
As the US has become more and more unnecessarily aggressive, it mainly adds fuel to the fire of guerrilla organizations like Al-Qaeda and various other "terrorist" sects.
How can you think that such a foreign policy of engaging in war will promote freedom? How can you think that the US imposes a world "free" of terrorism by supplementing the accounts of many dictatorships through foreign "aid"? It's completely irrational once seen from a greater context.
