LIBYA UNCHANGED

By Attorney Jonathan Emord
Author of "The Rise of Tyranny" and "Global Censorship of Health Information"
November 7, 2011
NewsWithViews.com

At great cost to American taxpayers, the Obama Administration lent its support to the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi, predicting a new regime that would be one friendly to the Libyan people and to the West. As with virtually every attempt to influence the politics of that region of the world, our ill-conceived and unwarranted adventure into Libyan domestic affairs has produced a bitter fruit: not a regime friendly to the West but a radical Islamist state. The head of the new Libyan government, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, announced to the horror of Western observers that the new Libya would be a radical Islamist state, replete with the Sharia law and renewed subjugation of women. So much for the argument that we intervened to save the people of Libya from a government that would oppress them.

The brutal end suffered by Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi is a fate known to many in that country not just in recent times but throughout the ages. All too often the “justiceâ€