Top Ten Myths about the Libya War
informed comment / Juan Cole
22-Aug-2011 (2 comments)

The Libyan Revolution has largely succeeded, and this is a moment of
celebration, not only for Libyans but for a youth generation in the Arab
world that has pursued a political opening across the region. The
secret of the uprising’s final days of success lay in a popular revolt
in the working-class districts of the capital, which did most of the
hard work of throwing off the rule of secret police and military
cliques. It succeeded so well that when revolutionary brigades entered
the city from the west, many encountered little or no resistance, and
they walked right into the center of the capital. Muammar Qaddafi was
in hiding as I went to press, and three of his sons were in custody.
Saif al-Islam Qaddafi had apparently been the de facto ruler of the
country in recent years, so his capture signaled a checkmate.
(Checkmate is a corruption of the Persian “shah maat,” the “king is
confounded,” since chess came west from India via Iran). Checkmate.

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Afshin Ehx

10 Myths About Libya? Rejoinder

by Afshin Ehx on Sun Aug 28, 2011 02:12 PM PDT

 

Juan Cole is good on some subjects, but does not get everything right.

Here is a response by Conn Hallinan:

“10 Myths About Libya? Rejoinder”

In his essay, “Top Ten Myths about the Libyan War,” Juan Cole argues that U.S. interests in the conflict consisted of stopping “massacres of people,” a “lawful world order,” “the NATO alliance,” and oddly, “the fate of Egypt.” It is worth taking a moment to look at each of these arguments, as well as his dismissal of the idea that the U.S./NATO intervention had anything to do with oil as “daft.”

Read it at //www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28963.htm.

 


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Tabarzin

It appears Juan Cole has misspoken because Saif Al Islam

by Tabarzin on Tue Aug 23, 2011 05:19 AM PDT


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