Gaddafi: Why is he still with us?

by Dillon Freed
March 16, 2011

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This should not be happening. Libyan civilians should not be at the mercy of a cracked man. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi should have been taken off this plane of existence by a Western power long ago. Sure it would have been messy, some would have howled with disapproval, but it should have been done.

The man is not sane. So what if he has moments of lucidity? Fine, he relinquished WMDs in 2003, but only because he feared that Bush's WMD eradication tour would make a stop in his nation. So what if he weirdly condemns bin Laden a war criminal, someone it seems he would have much in common with, as he did in 1998 – he was probably only saying as much because bin Laden was becoming more famous than he in the Muslim world.

Even his kind gestures are not actually magnanimous: when he paid the $10 million ransom for the release of captured Western tourists in the Philippines, he did it only as an insidious way to fund the Muslim terrorist organization, Abu Sayef, which held them.

So what if his behavior is perfect fodder for comedians, and if he seems like someone we should poke fun at, not kill. That he travels the world sleeping in a Bedouin tent, like the one he was born in, that he brings his Barbie-like Ukrainian nurse and pleasure toy everywhere he goes, or that he is guarded by a bevy of hand-picked, gun-toting Amazonian Guard virgins is not something to chortle at but to cry about. Keep in mind: this crazed man is leading a nation of nearly seven million souls.

Gaddafi has Borderline Personality Disorder – one day in an introductory level Abnormal Psychology class would tell you that. When Gaddafi crosses that Rubicon in his mind, he goes from merely brutal to wickedly narcissistic, paranoid and brutal. It is sad in a way, maybe he would be a different man if he was not a lunatic. Maybe, if he did not run a country, I would not say we should have put him down like the rabid dog that he is. I would instead suggest treatment.

But Gaddafi is a dangerous man – he always has been. We knew this – everyone did. Reagan called him the "mad dog of the Middle East," and Sadat said he was "one hundred percent sick and possessed by the devil" - in 1975. Real Politick be damned, fear of appearing like a meddler be condemned – he should have been taken out.

This is a man who sees reality bloated with spies, traitors, plots, machinations and conspiracies. A man who has murdered and disappeared thousands of dissidents at home and abroad - even attempting, and at times making good on his attempts, to assassinate his "politically sick," as he calls them, on the streets of America and Britain. At his worst, he stills sees the world as it was in the 1800s and early 1900s – rife with cunning, white imperialists and colonialists festering in every cranny of the African and Arab world.

Further, this is a man who has attacked us, who has killed fellow Americans and our cousin Europeans, and who would have greatly delighted in killing you, me or the one's we love if given the chance. Indeed, when Gaddafi sees a opportunity to strike a blow to the "imperialists," especially when the probability of getting caught is low, he has done so, such as when he ordered the bombing of the 1988 Pan AM Flight 103, killing 270, or when he bombed Le Belle nightclub in Berlin, killing two U.S. servicemen in 1986. He should have been taken out after either of those events – his nation not just bombed as Reagan did in retaliation, but assassinated.

Gaddafi fancies himself a messiah, Allah ordained, the Arab-Muslim-African-Third World King of Kings. Future memo: we should take out any men so grandiose, their soi-distant titles give them away (cf. the ridiculous designations Amin, Kim Jong Il, Hussein, etc. bestowed upon themselves). These men bring the deepest misery upon their people and put the world in the gravest danger by their very existence. They care not for law, peace or their own. Gaddafi's people starve, live in poverty, and he is worth half of what Bill Gates is.

Reality to this man is inverted; hell's vicars on earth are the noblest of men to him. Like the devil with a voice box and money, he picks the most demonic to support rhetorically and with his pelf: FARC in Columbia, the Black September group, Charles Taylor of the hellhole Liberia, the Japanese Red Army, Idi Amin the butcher and rapist of Uganda, Mariam the Soviet hand-puppet in Ethiopia, the Islamic terror groups Abu Sayef and MILF in the Philippines, the socialist swine of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, the late Slobodan Milosevic , who Gaddafi accepted a medal from after the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s, and that is the short list. The amount of innocent blood spilled by these groups and leaders, if blood were water, would make the Libyan Desert bloom.

Sure, the West is queasy about getting involved in internal affairs in another nation. It does not have the stomach for it, and more often than not, interference in foreign lands by the U.S. and Europe alike, have been the cause of many Anti-Western, specifically Anti-American, feelings. And let's be honest: our interventions can make a country the worse off for it. But I posit that the rich man on the hill is always hated – we are damned if we do or damned with we don't – thus, we must act on principle ignoring the feelings of others. I also posit that Gaddafi, like Saddam or Milosevic, is a special case. We owed it to the world and to the Libyan people to take him out sooner, by any means straight or crooked, risking whatever may have come in his place, playing on the probability that anything would be better than this sick man.

In sum, Gaddafi alive is no good for anyone. Even if he steps down during these current rebellions - we must still take him out – via arming rebels or covert operations or whatever – he still has enough money to wreak havoc though he may not hold power. But we should not have to worry about that: he wishes to die a martyr, to fight to the last breath, as he just said in his last rambling speech, and I believe him. Therefore, the best thing course of action is to do what should have been done long ago: assist him his wishes and make sure that his last breath comes sooner rather than later.

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