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It has been three years since Gaddafi has been removed.
Before that freedom loving Arab Spring, while Libya was still happily part of the "axis of evil" and the country with highest HDI on African continent, it was appearing in the news section quite readily. These days however, not so much - and this is Libya today.
Few? Perhaps not on the exact nature of the future Libyan collapse, but that there will be a collapse in the quality of life in Libya after Gadaffi, that was rather obvious.
What can I say - other than - Freedom! Sarkomeron, and thanks Obama!
Sarko is gone, still alive though, unlike Gaddafi - and meeting with Putin, something I am sure Gaddafi wished he did more of.
Cameron and Obama still here looking for more countries to free, while advising British and American citizens to leave Libya due to "turmoil".
While those who hold Libyan passports, and cannot leave recently "liberated" country are waiting, for next tranche of civil war, while enjoying the fact that their countries GDP went from around 15k USD per head in 2010 with near full employment to 6k per head last year (pretty much all oil as everything else collapsed) with 50% unemployment today, but hey, they must be free now, right? No oppression, life full of opportunity - fair and balanced, and certainly not in the news anymore, the threat has been removed and ex axis of evil member is back to just another destroyed African "banana" country.
Life back to normal. Mission Accomplished.
Before that freedom loving Arab Spring, while Libya was still happily part of the "axis of evil" and the country with highest HDI on African continent, it was appearing in the news section quite readily. These days however, not so much - and this is Libya today.
When Libya threw off the shackles of dictatorship in its Arab spring revolution, few could have imagined that, three years later, it would have two rival governments installed at opposite ends of the country, presiding over fighting that has, in effect, torn the nation in two.
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Islamists insist they control a democratic congress, voted into power in the country's first post-revolution elections, but opponents say the parliament lost its legitimacy by extending its mandate beyond its original limit in February.
As fighting worsens, foreign officials have become targets. The International Committee of the Red Cross on Thursday suspended operations after a Swiss employee was shot dead in the coastal city of Sirte, and a UN spokesman said four of its diplomats were captured and "roughed up" by militias at Tripoli airport.
The United States has moved warships, aircraft and 1,000 marines to the region and Washington has joined Canada, Jordan and Tunisia in advising citizens to leave Libya immediately.
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Islamists insist they control a democratic congress, voted into power in the country's first post-revolution elections, but opponents say the parliament lost its legitimacy by extending its mandate beyond its original limit in February.
As fighting worsens, foreign officials have become targets. The International Committee of the Red Cross on Thursday suspended operations after a Swiss employee was shot dead in the coastal city of Sirte, and a UN spokesman said four of its diplomats were captured and "roughed up" by militias at Tripoli airport.
The United States has moved warships, aircraft and 1,000 marines to the region and Washington has joined Canada, Jordan and Tunisia in advising citizens to leave Libya immediately.
Few? Perhaps not on the exact nature of the future Libyan collapse, but that there will be a collapse in the quality of life in Libya after Gadaffi, that was rather obvious.
What can I say - other than - Freedom! Sarkomeron, and thanks Obama!
Sarko is gone, still alive though, unlike Gaddafi - and meeting with Putin, something I am sure Gaddafi wished he did more of.
Cameron and Obama still here looking for more countries to free, while advising British and American citizens to leave Libya due to "turmoil".
While those who hold Libyan passports, and cannot leave recently "liberated" country are waiting, for next tranche of civil war, while enjoying the fact that their countries GDP went from around 15k USD per head in 2010 with near full employment to 6k per head last year (pretty much all oil as everything else collapsed) with 50% unemployment today, but hey, they must be free now, right? No oppression, life full of opportunity - fair and balanced, and certainly not in the news anymore, the threat has been removed and ex axis of evil member is back to just another destroyed African "banana" country.
Life back to normal. Mission Accomplished.
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