tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post3406155581335689166..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: De Facto Partition Of Libya Coming?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-17642020275780177582011-03-21T14:01:18.831-04:002011-03-21T14:01:18.831-04:00Jacques,
I find it amusing that the metro stop ne...Jacques,<br /><br />I find it amusing that the metro stop near the Tour Eiffel in Paris is named Bir Hakeim. While it was suppposedly a joint operation, it was mostly the British who ran Libya after the Italians were thrown out, with the French only involved in relatively unimportant Fezzan. And it was the Brits who imposed Idris as king.<br /><br />I am not sure what your definition of colonialism is. If it involves people moving in from France they way they did in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and Lebanon, well, no, the French did not "colonizie" Libya. But they were in control of it in a secondary role with the British, and by all accounts it was French planes who hit the ground troops of Qaddafi outside Benghazi, killing some of them, something outside the mandates given by both the Arab League and the UNSC, with the former now reconsidering its support for the operation thanks to this.Barkley Rosserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13114257724762074636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-1201681295273521032011-03-21T13:18:53.433-04:002011-03-21T13:18:53.433-04:00The Free French went through Fezzan in !943 came f...The Free French went through Fezzan in !943 came from Chad. After the battle of Bir Hakeim they linked up with the Britsih and went on to other excellent adventures in mainland Italy. The never colonized or administerded anything.<br />In the 70's-80's, there were border battle in the Aouzou band near Faya-Larfeau where the French bomobed Libyan positions in the far south desert for which the Libyan population gave not a whit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-43878259231084330362011-03-21T11:41:41.919-04:002011-03-21T11:41:41.919-04:00Stagnation and de facto division do seem lively po...Stagnation and de facto division do seem lively possibilities. Recall that the no-fly zones in Iraq lasted more than a decade under Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II, coming to an end only when the US invaded in March 2003. It seems all too possible that this no-fly zone will stay in place a long time and be matched by "sanctions" having the effect of increasing suffering among ordinary Libyans while strengthening Qaddafi's power. It seems that few remember Madeleine Albright's remark that 500,000 dead Iraqi children was worth it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbIX1CP9qr4Roger Kopplhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13532727526147834036noreply@blogger.com