Comments on: Libya at the brink: who is Saif al-Islam Qaddafi? https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/22/libya-at-the-brink-who-is-saif-al-islam-qaddafi/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:50:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Sig https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/22/libya-at-the-brink-who-is-saif-al-islam-qaddafi/#comment-228199 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:50:08 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/02/22/libya-at-the-brink-who-is-saif-al-islam-qaddafi/#comment-228199

Iraqi planes have strafed demonstrators and many more are reported to have died.

Um… what? This doesn’t make any sense for at least two reasons. =)

]]> By: Parker https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/22/libya-at-the-brink-who-is-saif-al-islam-qaddafi/#comment-228198 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:38:15 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/02/22/libya-at-the-brink-who-is-saif-al-islam-qaddafi/#comment-228198 Perhaps Saif is Freddie Corleone rather than Michael?

]]> By: LAG https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/22/libya-at-the-brink-who-is-saif-al-islam-qaddafi/#comment-228143 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 02:16:45 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/02/22/libya-at-the-brink-who-is-saif-al-islam-qaddafi/#comment-228143 Here’s a line from James Taranto today that illustrates my last post: “Collective bargaining in the public sector thus is less a negotiation than a conspiracy to steal money from taxpayers.”

Obviously this is not about Libya, but I think the same principle applies.

]]> By: LAG https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/22/libya-at-the-brink-who-is-saif-al-islam-qaddafi/#comment-228133 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 01:39:38 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/02/22/libya-at-the-brink-who-is-saif-al-islam-qaddafi/#comment-228133 neo, actually I agree with the mafia analogue. Unfortunately, even the best government sometimes carries within itself aspects of la cosa nostra.

]]> By: I R A Darth Aggie https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/22/libya-at-the-brink-who-is-saif-al-islam-qaddafi/#comment-228069 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:28:48 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/02/22/libya-at-the-brink-who-is-saif-al-islam-qaddafi/#comment-228069 what compelled Saif to be the one to make that speech the other day?

I’m guessing it is ultimately pragmatism. The problem with being Presidente for life is that you are presidente for life. There is only one way the Gaddafi clan surives this without going into exile and learning to live always looking over their shoulders for someone coming to extract a pound of flesh.

]]> By: LAG https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/22/libya-at-the-brink-who-is-saif-al-islam-qaddafi/#comment-228015 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:55:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/02/22/libya-at-the-brink-who-is-saif-al-islam-qaddafi/#comment-228015 It’s also worth noting that the London School of Economics is an Ivy League-level institution. Explain again why people with doctorates are so esteemed.

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/22/libya-at-the-brink-who-is-saif-al-islam-qaddafi/#comment-228014 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:52:32 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/02/22/libya-at-the-brink-who-is-saif-al-islam-qaddafi/#comment-228014 LAG: no, I believe it’s more complicated than that. I think, as I wrote, that he’s the Michael Corleone. Which would make his story more interesting than Uday and Qusay’s, although I believe it will probably the same ending as theirs.

]]> By: LAG https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/22/libya-at-the-brink-who-is-saif-al-islam-qaddafi/#comment-228012 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:51:21 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/02/22/libya-at-the-brink-who-is-saif-al-islam-qaddafi/#comment-228012 Easy–he’s the Uday and Qusay of Libya.

He’s the Gamal Mubarak of the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. The heir to the Leader and Guide of the Revolution.

Until a day or so ago, at least. Hopefully a day or so from now he will either be following Uday and brother or comfortably settled into exile in Caracas.

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