The elephant in the room

Ghaddafi is dead, which is the 'best new thing in decades'.... for the Libyans...

But there is a huge black elephant in the room which, in all the reporting only got one mention, and that in a dramatic whisper... by Jon Stewart. '....and oil, they have lots of oil...' He was the only one to mention the elephant.

And so it is more than disingenuous for even good reporters to profess 'wonder' and a sort of surprise that Dumbya had tried to rehabilitate Ghaddafi in the international community, which enranged the relatives and friends of the victims of Lockerbie and many other people.

There were enough reports at the time that Libya sits on a HUGE reserve of oil, and conglomerates in England, France, Germany, the US and China were just dying to get licenses for drilling rights. So Ghaddafi played them, and they were all just fine with it. Anything to get a toe-hold and drill there.

There were enough reports about it at the time in the MSM, so.... why the confusion and wonder now? The dictator got what he wanted, and he limited what they could do. He may have been weird, and ruthless and crazy, but he wasn't dumb.

The present administration took a different view of things, and the uprising of the Libyans gave them the really unique opportunity of getting what they really want obliquely. So they 'helped' the people throw over the dictator and Ghaddafi lost... everything, including his life. If you gamble long enough you hit a losing streak.

That isn't to say I regret his demise. I'm sure he's rotting in some sort of hell...

I'm just irritated by the way things were presented in the media... as if it were all a mystery, or something. Do they really think that in our fast-moving world we have the attention span of two-year-olds, and no long-term memory retention?

It was brilliant on the part of the West. They keep their own troops out of it, the Libyans are grateful, and the corporations are finally going to get everything they've always wanted. One should never underestimate them.

In comparison, no one has ever given a flying fuck about Somalia and all the death there. Do we see an international effort? Course not. Call me cynical.

(Talk about rhetorical questions, hey....)

Nope, Jon Stewart was the only one to mention it... in a whisper. He sees the elephant in the room.