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And you realize that western countries had a history of getting rid of those who objected being on that side of the transactions, right?

• sgift 8y ago
  Had being the correct word. History is history. It has to be evaluated and we should learn from it. Attributing all the bad things happening in Africa today to the West is not part of that. Freedom means responsibility.
  • oblio 8y ago
    I'm not saying that Gadaffi was some sort of angel, but you do know that the "liberation" of Libya happened just a few years ago, right? Libya was not amazing but the numbers tell a sad story: https://tradingeconomics.com/libya/gdp-per-capita https://tradingeconomics.com/libya/gdp-per-capita
    • mijamo 8y ago
      The alternative to what happened in Libya was what happened in Syria basically, and it went much much worse. So all in all I wouldn't blame the Libyan situation on the intervention. Gadaffi should have just gone by itself like they did in Egypt and Tunisia. His choice to remain, just like Syria, sentenced his country and the population.