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World's Top Ten Gaddafi Toads

(American Interest) Walter Russell Mead - As Muammar Gaddafi, Africa's King of Kings and the Great Loon of Libya, does his hideous best to engulf his country in terror and blood for the sake of extending his despicable and destructive rule, it is worth reflecting on the degree to which the "international community" flattered, cajoled and enabled this psychopath. History will not forgive those who colluded with, bribed, defended and helped this grotesque parody of a national leader rape and ruin his own unhappy land. Inviting a series of American intellectuals and scholars to Libya as part of a typical PR offensive, the kind of tactic they teach in the Techniques of Tyranny 101 intro course, Gaddafi gave them the kind of snow job that Hitler and Stalin used to give visiting foreigners - and too many of them fell for it. As Benjamin Barber wrote in the Washington Post: "Written off not long ago as an implacable despot, Gaddafi is a complex and adaptive thinker as well as an efficient, if laid-back, autocrat."
2011-03-07 00:00:00
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