Reuters: Rebels Take Tripoli's Green Sq...Fireworks Celebrations

Re: Reuters: Rebels Take Tripoli's Green Sq...Celebrations --Ghaddafi Son Arrested

MSNBC has been live on it since around 8:30-8:45.

 

Re: Reuters: Rebels Take Tripoli's Green Sq...Celebrations --Ghaddafi Son Arrested

Ah. Guess it had been a while since I checked.

They'd been in taped programming all day, it hardly seemed worth checking.

 

Re: Reuters: Rebels Take Tripoli's Green Sq...Celebrations --Ghaddafi Son Arrested

So when do we get the Lockerbie bomber back?

 

Re: Reuters: Rebels Take Tripoli's Green Sq...Celebrations --Ghaddafi Son Arrested

You're not going to see it, if for no other reason than it doesn't fit the established narrative, one that Republicans have spent decades building (with help from the inept Democrats).

 

Re: Reuters: Rebels Take Tripoli's Green Sq...Celebrations --Ghaddafi Son Arrested

AlJazeera goes with a G, but two Ds, so it's Gaddafi for them.

 

Re: Reuters: Rebels Take Tripoli's Green Sq...Celebrations --Ghaddafi Son Arrested

Half listening to CNN, every time they mention the TNC I think they are saying TMZ.

 

Re: Reuters: Rebels Take Tripoli's Green Sq...Celebrations --Ghaddafi Son Arrested

Democrats crash helicopters in deserts (Iran, Somalia, Pakistan...).

I'm sure that's on a talking point memo somewhere...

 

Re: Reuters: Rebels Take Tripoli's Green Sq...Celebrations --Ghaddafi Son Arrested

Will be interested to see if Obama now moves to the front seat to try and grab some credit.

 

Re: Reuters: Rebels Take Tripoli's Green Sq...Celebrations --Ghaddafi Son Arrested

Not if he's smart, Boom. As we saw in Iraq in 2003, the dictator's fall can mean the real trouble is just starting.

 

Re: Reuters: Rebels Take Tripoli's Green Sq...Celebrations --Ghaddafi Son Arrested

There's a big difference between what has happened in the Arab spring and what has happened in past regime changes.

The anti-American sentiment is based largely on the U.S. as an imperial power, going back to the Shah in the 1950s. These revolutions have been largely organic and hardly orchestrated -- if assisted -- by the U.S. and NATO. So I don't necessarily think what follows will be something with a decided anti-American slant. There's little traction for that right now.

Having said that, who knows how the dust will eventually settle in Egypt, Lybia, Tunisia and elsewhere.

 

Re: Reuters: Rebels Take Tripoli's Green Sq...Celebrations --Ghaddafi Son Arrested

You must not follow the same Twitter feeds that I do.

There is still a lot of anti-American rhetoric out there.

That said, I'm still optimistic, but it is out there.