  Soo. our new Middle Eastern tryant "buddy" is turning out to be much like our old Middle Eastern tyrant buddy. Apparently, Mr. Khaddaffi wanted to kill the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia in order to urlLink stir up the pot. Though the caveat is that IF this is true, it happened last year. But even if it did happen last year, it shows the folly of putting our trust in tyrants and dictators. It never ceases to amaze me how our country lives by such overt contradications.
In one breadth a President will say "I wanna bring peace and democracy to the Middle East but pretty much at the expense of everyone else. " Outside of blanket press releases, do you think Bush or Kerry would challenge Russia on democracy? How about Saudi Arabia? urlLink What of Iran electing a new hardline parliment largely because of what's going on in Iraq? Egypt? Pakistan?
China? Chad perhaps? What of the ruthless murders in urlLink Darfur? We will do nothing and say nothing because frankly, we are living in one giant contradiction of policy. WE allow ruthless warlords to run wild in Afghanistan, we turn a blind eye to ruthless Middle Eastern thugs and hell keep them in power through military support though these actions clearly give Bin Laden a leg to stand on. And yet we find ourselves holding the proverbial wolves by the ears as Thomas Jefferson said of slavery.
We can't let the wolf go because he'd kill us, but surely we don't have the strength to keep holding him. We cannot allow our tyrant friends in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia or perhaps even Egypt to be replaced by "democracy" because if the people had their vote, they'd probably replace them with someone urlLink we realllly wouldn't like. What I'd give for a President to go to China and say "you tyrants, you evil, immoral men, as surely as freedom and hope prospers in the hearts of men and women, your days are numbered. " But this will never come because our nation must coddle dictators and in doing so, we come across as hypocrites and it encourages anti-Americanism in these nations. Tough dillemmas. So will Khaddafi actually face some sort of punishment for this?
Not likely. Since we based our war in Iraq on the premise of "weapons of mass destruction", all Khaddafi had to do was give up his weapons and we gave him a blank check to continue his dictatorship. then again, I suppose we did try to urlLink kill him. 
