Libya

Ambassador Stevens

The Smoking Gun of the Benghazi Cover-up

On June 6 of this year, a bomb planted at the U.S. compound in Benghazi ripped a 12-foot-wide hole in the outer wall. On June 11, the British ambassador’s motorcade was hit ...

General Augusto Pinochet

Clemency for Tyrants

Vengeance is always shortsighted, and Egypt these days needs spectacles. The New Egypt (which is still being run by the Old Military) detained Hosni Mubarak and his two sons last ...

The Tyrant and the Rebels

Once there was a ruler who held his vast land together with an iron fist. For decades the people in one of his disparate regions had pursued peaceful methods to codify their way ...

Obama’s Imperial Presidency

It looks as if Washington has fallen into another trap with Obama’s move on Libya. Yes, the Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi is a nutcase and a bloodstained dictator who ...

Muammar al-Gaddafi, 1969.

Entertaining Mr. Gaddafi

Mention of Libya always makes me think of Joe Orton, I’m sorry to say. Does anyone remember Joe Orton? The people maintaining that website clearly do, though mainly it ...

Obama’s War

In ordering air and naval strikes on a country that neither threatened nor attacked the United States, did President Obama commit an impeachable act? So it would seem. For the ...

Antaeus by William Blake

Hercules in the Desert

Antaeus was a Libyan giant whose strength appeared invincible. One day he challenged the mighty Hercules to a wrestling match. Each time Antaeus was thrown to the ground, he rose ...

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