Next in line?
He's speaking Arabic, which I'm sure most of my readers don't understand, but listen to the voice and look at the mannerisms of Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi. He seems pretty scared, doesn't he? In light of what happened in nearby Tunisia over the weekend, he has something to fear. And maybe the Libyan people would give up that stooge who brought down Pan Am 103.Let's go to the videotape.
Labels: Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, Pan Am 103, Tunisia
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:42 AM
4 Comments:
He does seem frightened (his voice is hesitant, that's for sure) but I think he is also suffering from too much plastic surgery.
Either he's frozen in fear or his face is mostly just plain frozen.
I don't see why he should be frightened. Tunisia just underwent what brought Nasser to power in 1954 and brought Gaddafi himself to power in 1969. Anyone who thinks that this uprising will make Tunisia anymore democratic is daft! As Peter Townsend sings "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
Out with the old trash and in with the new.
The Arab world is simply replacing their old generation of complacent tyrants with a younger generation of more violent and committed tyrants.
Very interesting. I don't speak Arabic either, so I muted the speakers and just concentrated on Gaddafi's body language.
I noted that he kept his body and arms tightly together, rigidly, with his hands intermittently going to pointing forward in parallel, then closing up, as if to further encapsulate his body. He worked very hard at showing no emotion.
This is a man who doesn't want to share any of his real thoughts and feelings with his audience. I think I have to agree with Eliana, Gaddafi is more than a little scared.
Given Gaddafi's bloody, brutal history over Libya, if his regime ever lost it's tight control over it's citizens, I don't think he'd make it into safe exile with his stolen booty, like Ben Ali. I think his fate would be more along the lines of Mussolini. So, either Gaddafi maintains his tightly controlled dictatorship at whatever cost or he's a dead man. I think those are his probable options and that he probably realizes it.
Arab dictators aren't sleeping quite so soundly anymore. For all his flaws, we have to ultimately thank George W. Bush for this.
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