{"id":245,"date":"2011-10-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldahonigman.com\/?page_id=245"},"modified":"2011-10-22T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T13:00:00","slug":"qaddafi-the-devil-is-dead-beware-what-comes-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geraldahonigman.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/22\/qaddafi-the-devil-is-dead-beware-what-comes-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Qaddafi: The Devil Is Dead…Beware What Comes After"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Qaddafi: The Devil Is Dead\u2026Beware What Comes After <\/strong><\/p>\n

by Gerald A. Honigman <\/p>\n

With Libya\u2019s President Qaddafi now sleeping with the camels, it\u2019s time to take another look at what\u2019s happening on that front. <\/p>\n

Earlier this year, when the Arab Spring was fresh, I wrote my first assessments of what was transpiring in Libya. Now, given the news of Qaddafi\u2019s death, if I do say so myself, I believe my observations back then warrant a second look. <\/p>\n

Before we reexamine those initial thoughts, I\u2019d like to share some recent excerpts from a good buddy of mine who made aliyah (moved to Israel) a few years ago\u2013Ted Belman, of Israpundit. Check him out\u2026 <\/p>\n

\u201cQaddafi wasn\u2019t any worse than the barbarians that killed him and will replace him\u2026So Qaddafi will only be replaced by worse savages. The way the jihadist-enabling msm is reporting the death of Qaddafi, you would think that Libya will become some sort of western style democracy rather than a Sharia-ruled hell-hole which will become the latest haven for al Qaeda. So why are the same people who condemned Bush\u2019s overthrow of Saddam, celebrating this? The \u201crebels\u201d we aided in Libya are not our friends, they are linked with al Qaeda. In recent years, Qaddafi had become nothing more than a loon we found amusing, rather than remotely representing any kind of a threat to us. So why was he targeted by NATO? And why were we so quick to oust longtime ally Mubarak? And why have we done nothing against the real threat posed to us by the genocidal regime in Iran\u2026\u201d <\/p>\n

Please keep Ted\u2019s thoughts in mind as we see what I observed back on March 27, 2011. Below is an encore presentation of Wrong War\u2026along with some relevant excerpts from an earlier assessment as well. Since many readers did not see these back then, I believe they will now discover some important facts about Qaddafi they never knew\u2013some of those actually to his credit. Okay, let\u2019s begin, and remember that this analysis appeared some seven months ago\u2026 <\/p>\n

Forget about the excuses for outside intervention in Libya that you\u2019ve heard of\u2026 <\/p>\n

While it\u2019s true that Libya\u2019s leader has used violence to secure his despotism against any assortment of opponents, one would be hard pressed to find a leader (besides in that tiny, much vilified, you-know-where of a nation that almost everyone loves to hate ) in that region of the world who has not already or who would not later follow Qaddafi\u2019s same game plan. <\/p>\n

We live in a world of relativities, not absolutes. Given this, there are much bigger and nastier fish that need fried\u2026 <\/p>\n

As I pointed out in my first analysis on this issue, \u201cLibya: \u2018Tis a Puzzlement\u201d(http:\/\/www.virtualjerusalem.com\/blogs.php?Itemid=3012), Qaddafi is a leader whom even his fellow Arab despots and medieval potentates love to hate\u2026but for reasons actually to his credit (open the url to that first article above for some positive surprises as he takes on other Arab leaders for their barbarism and such)\u2013so he became an acceptable target for the West\u2019s allegedly moral military intervention on behalf of innocents. <\/p>\n

The problem is, on the scale of relativity in his general neighborhood, Qaddafi is surpassed big time by far worse tyrants. <\/p>\n

The world watched, occasionally huffed and puffed, but did little else for over a half century as black Africans in the Sudan were raped, massacred, enslaved, displaced, and so forth by the millions by Arab and Arabized conquerors of the country. While the black, non-Muslim south may finally see a light at the end of its tunnel, since it\u2019s slated for independence this summer, the nightmare for the blacks\u2013Muslim, but non-Arab nor Arabized enough\u2013of the western Darfur region of the Sudan continues. <\/p>\n

Why the swift action in Libya, where a very tiny fraction of the Sudan\u2019s number of atrocities have occurred (thank G_d), but the West still twiddles its fingers over Darfur and such? Would not a hundred or so cruise missiles into Khartoum have sent a message along with the same UN mandate to take all necessary means for the protection for all the Sudan\u2019s people? <\/p>\n

Why Libya, and not the Sudan? <\/p>\n

More bigger fish\u2026 <\/p>\n

As the Middle East continues to erupt, how is it that Syria repeatedly gets away with the murders, political assassinations, subjugation, and so forth of Lebanon and the terror it has supported against almost all of its neighbors in an assortment of conflicts? <\/p>\n

Syria has routinely subjugated millions of its own native Kurds and slaughtered many others, to this date depriving them of basic human rights, let alone political ones. Today, Kurds are increasingly under the threat of mass slaughter. Sadly, things have not changed much since Ismet Cherif Vanly wrote \u201cThe Syrian Mein Kampf Against The Kurds\u201d back in 1968. <\/p>\n

As for the Arabs of Syria, by now the expression, \u201cHama Solution,\u201d has become legendary. <\/p>\n

The current leader\u2019s father, Hafez al-Assad, blasted the town in 1982 to quell an uprising. Between 30,000 to 40,000 Arabs were slaughtered. So, not that I wish it, but Qaddafi has a lot of catching up to do on the scale of nastiness relativity here as well. The Syrian Arab leaders have him beat by far\u2013and are poised to continue doing so as scores of new victims are reported daily in Dana\u2019a, Homs, Latakia, and so forth. <\/p>\n

Given its \u2019Hama Solution\u2019 history and reputation, why are the same threats and actions taken by the UN and the West against Libya now not being issued against the Butchers of Damascus? <\/p>\n

Saving the best for last\u2026 <\/p>\n

How can the West justify such intense action against Qaddafi\u2013who, admittedly, has also been involved in some nasty things\u2013but continue to act so pathetically feeble when dealing with terror and regional (if not wider) war\u2019s master enablers\u2026Ahmadinejad and the Iranian Twelver Shi\u2019a ayatollahs? <\/p>\n

Besides actively supporting and arming (in collaboration with Syria) Hizbullah\u2013allowing for the latter\u2019s power grab in Lebanon\u2013the current Iranian leadership is a major supporter of Hamas as well\u2026all three players dedicated to the utter destruction of the one sole place in the entire region where anyone is free to demonstrate, protest, and so forth without the risk of being massacred\u2013Israel. <\/p>\n

Kurds, Ahwazi Arabs, Baluchis, and others are routinely targeted, oppressed, and slaughtered, with more Kurds being readied for execution by hanging as this piece is being written. <\/p>\n

Syrian Arabs not only met their match for barbarism in the Iraq of an Arab Saddam, but also in their current best buddies, the non-Arab Iranians. Peas of the same murderous pod, for sure\u2026 <\/p>\n

If ever there was cause for outside intervention on behalf of a people longing to be free, that of Iran\u2019s Aryan masses\u2013 after Ahmadinejad stole the election of 2009\u2013certainly ranks among the highest of them all. They already got hoodwinked once before with the overthrow of the Shah when they wound up with an even worse autocratic theocracy instead. <\/p>\n

Think post-Mubarak Egypt today\u2013although polls show that most Egyptians actually look favorably upon the ayatollahs\u2019 counterparts there, like the Muslim Brotherhood. By the way, the latter, while Sunni Arab, are friendly towards the Shi\u2019a Iranian leadership. Now think of an alliance between 160 million of just these two nations\u2019 peoples\u2013with Israel as the main target. <\/p>\n

Hundreds of protestors were slaughtered in Iran during 2009\u2019s Green Revolution, and thousands more were beaten and imprisoned\u2026 and all while President Obama, the United Nations, and the West stood by and watched. They were all as effective in changing events in that case as they\u2019ve been in stopping Iran\u2019s march to develop nuclear weapons to destroy Israel and intimidate the rest of the region and the world with as well. Iran has recently sent warships through the Suez Canal en route to Latakia, Syria where it will be building a permanent naval base just up the road from Lebanon\u2013which its surrogate, Hizbullah, now controls, and just a bit further away from Israel. <\/p>\n

So, if any additional autocratic despotism needed to get nailed, it was\/is certainly that of Iran. Without outside intervention, any hint of internal dissent and longing for freedom will continue to simply be murderously dealt with. <\/p>\n

The problem is, unlike the current action in Libya, a move against Iran would have taken some real backbone to do\u2013something neither the current American leader nor the rest of the folks involved possess. If they didn\u2019t first get an approval from the Arab League itself, they wouldn\u2019t have acted against Qaddafi either (not that they should have done so anyway). <\/p>\n

Realistically, Qaddafi\u2013being the smaller fish\u2013could theoretically fry easier\u2026theoretically. <\/p>\n

But any war\u2013and the current Libyan conflict is a war\u2013fought half-baked invites defeat. <\/p>\n

Before one makes a decision to go to war, the overall good expected in its wake must be thought out very carefully. <\/p>\n

Yet too much of this action has been taken with too many unknowns at hand. <\/p>\n

A coalition of some of the most powerful countries on Earth assembled to attack Qaddafi? <\/p>\n

That has to make him smile a bit\u2026 <\/p>\n

Yet the real monsters in Syria and Iran, who dwarf him in degrees of nastiness, remain unscathed and prepared to massacre and subjugate their own populations and others as well with impunity and ready to also unleash pure hell unto much of the rest of us when the time is ripe. The turmoil the latter will cause fits nicely into the Iranian Twelvers\u2019 plans to hasten the return of the Mahdi\u2026 <\/p>\n

On the scale of relativity, while war is never a good choice, the wrong war really is exceptionally deplorable\u2013especially when there are so many other more deserving fish practically begging to be dealt with. <\/p>\n

Okay\u2026above was my assessment seven months ago. Now check out the active discussion going on related to Ted\u2019s current remarks on his own popular website, Israpundit\u2026 http:\/\/www.israpundit.com\/archives\/40586<\/a> <\/p>\n

And be sure to check out my You Tubes http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Ho…..=mhee#p\/u,<\/a> hear my presentations, and visit me in person at the Florida State Tea Party Convention in Daytona Beach from November 4th through 6th at the beautiful Ocean Center http:\/\/www.ttpnc.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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