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Jimmy, you seem to have failed to grasp the point of what I was trying to describe, that in Libya there is no haranguing of women who do not wear veils, and there is a social system of schools for all children, and I do believe also religious tollerance.
All the things it seems western armies are trying to introduce to Afghanistan, as the Soviet army before them: a social way of life where all children go to school, women do not wear veils on their faces ...
The Mujahedin, when fighting the Soviet army, killed thousands of Afghan teachers, because they were teaching children in schools according to modern 'Indo-European' standards.
We do not even know who the opposition leaders are in Libya, what life-style they propose in Libya, if they even have any idea themselves of what they want.
Democracy as we know it has never existed in Libya. There used to be a king, Mr. Iris, who went to Turkey on a state-visit one day and found he was ousted from his throne by the Libyan army.
I think in Libya there is a kind of tribal style of society combined with modern society and a rich oil-producing economy, and I thought that Mr. Ghedaffi had been getting on quite well with the western world and was trying to do his best for the Libyan people, and also allowed over a million Egyptians to go to Libya, probably to work and receive a salary.
Unless one knows what people staging a revolt want and propose, it is hard to say if they are in any way justified. I hope no-one crops up in Libya preaching that women must walk around wearing veils and that girls must not go to school and the like of it which we know only too well from Afghanistan, and that no-one tries haranguing us one day that we have to intervene or something!
