Jeffrey Fleishman writes: "'Kadafi's biggest mistake was that he built his whole regime on pure fear,' said Omar Amer, a member of the Libyan Youth Movement, a protest group that spreads its message through Facebook. 'He totally abandoned civilizing Libya. He neglected education and development projects. He left the majority of his people in the dark ages and built his might on fear through torturing and killing political dissidents in public. But the fear that Kadafi built his empire with is gone, and that was his last shelter,' Amer added."
A woman holds up a pre-Qaddafi Libyan flag during a protest against his 41-year rule outside the United Nations building in New York, 02/21/11. (photo: Reuters)
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Kadafi abandoned civilizing his country by neglecting education and other development projects. The United States has neglected educating our young people. The charade of "No Child Left Behind" was a feeble attempt to look like the government cared, but quickly unravelled into a heap of standardized tests and other requirements that smothered the ingenuity of our teachers and made mediocrity king.
Kadafi left his people in the dark ages. The United States seems to be pushing our citizens back to the dark ages, politically. Instead of promoting a healthy national discourse, our leaders have shovelled rancid sound bytes down our throats, eroding the ability of our citizens to make informed political decisions. Many politicians from the right wing have even gone so far as to suggest that if we don't agree with THEM, we are un-American.
Kadafi's fear-fuelled empire is crumbling. Can the US learn from his mistakes?
The Government-killing people are our common enemy. Illegal wars (Vietnam) Iraq (where we found no Weapons of Mass Destruction and which was started under false pretenses) are draining us dry. Support our troops!= Bring them home. Send Mubarak-Walker and his rich cronies, Mubarak, the Quadaffis (father & son)and all other misery-creating people who govern us to H.E double hockey-sticks.
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