The Curse Of Col. Gadhafi
By Ilana Mercer
April 25, 2015 "Information
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- When they
destabilized Libya and
overthrew strongman Muammar Gadhafi in 2011 the U.S. and its Canadian and
European allies unleashed a series of events that accounts for the steady flood
into Europe of migrants from North Africa. There are, purportedly,
“up to 1 million” poor, uneducated, possibly illiterate, predominantly male,
and by necessity violence-prone individuals, poised to board rickety freighters
in the Libyan ports of Tripoli and Zuwarah, and make the perilous journey across
the Mediterranean, to southern Italy. The 900 migrants who perished off the
coast of Libya when their vessel capsized embarked in Zuwara.
Zuwara has always been “famous for people smuggling,”
notes Richard Spencer, Middle East editor of The Telegraph. “The modern
story of Zuwara and its trade in people,” says Spencer, whose newspaper has
documented the genesis of the exodus well before the
U.S. press awoke to it, “was a key part of the late Col. Muammar Gadhafi’s
relationship with the European Union.”
The “indigenous, pre-Arab inhabitants of North Africa,”
Berbers, as they are known in the West, have long since had a hand in human
trafficking. As part of an agreement he made with
Silvio Berlusconi’s government, “Col. Gaddafi had agreed to crack down on
the trade in people.” For prior to the dissolution of Libya at the behest of
Barack Obama’s Amazon women warriors—Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice and Samantha
Power—Libya had a navy. Under the same accord with the Berlusconi government
(and for a pretty penny), Gadhafi’s admiralty stemmed the tide of migrants into
Europe.
Here’s an interesting aside: Because he cracked down on their
customary trade, the Zuwarans of Libya rose up against Gadhafi; the reason for
this faction’s uprising, in 2011, was not the hunger for democracy, as John
McCain and his BFF Lindsey Graham would have it.
Back in 2007, Labor Prime Minister Tony Blair also shook on an
accord with Gadhafi. Diplomacy averse neoconservatives—they think diplomacy
should be practiced only with allies—condemned the agreement. The “Deal in the
Desert,” as it came to be known derisively, was about bringing Libya in from the
cold and into the 21st century. In return, and among other obligations, Gadhafi
agreed to curtail people smuggling.
Ever ask yourself why so many northern and sub-Saharan
Africans
flocked to Libya? As bad as it was before the West targeted it for
“reform”—and thus paved the way for the daily privations of the Islamic
State—Libya was still one of the mercantile meccas in this blighted and
benighted region.
As dumb as “W” was in unseating Iraq’s dictator, Saddam
Hussein, he acted wisely with Gadhafi. Both George Bush and Bill Clinton, before
him, saw to it that, in exchange for a diplomatic relationship with the U.S.,
Gadhafi abandoned terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
Africa has always provided what the cognoscenti term “push
factors” for migration: “Poverty, political instability and civil war … are such
powerful factors,”
laments Flavio Di Giacomo, a spokesman for the International Organization of
Migration in Italy. More recently, the Middle East has been the source of the
flight. The chaos and carnage in Iraq is ongoing—has been since the American
invasion of 2003. Of late, the civil war in Syria, in which the U.S. has sought
to topple another strongman who held it all together, has displaced 4 million
people.
Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey have absorbed hundreds of thousands of these
refugees, as they should. But there are at least 500,000 more war-worn Syrians
ready to be put to sea.
Programmed from on high, Europeans, like Americans, are bound
by the suicide pact of political correctness to open their borders to the
huddled mass of Third World people, no matter the consequences to their
societies. Gadhafi was without such compunction. In 2010, he openly vowed to
“turn Europe black,” unless the neutered Europeans rewarded him handsomely for
doing the work they refused to do: patrol and protect their coastline.
“Tomorrow Europe might no longer be European, and even black,”
roared Gadhafi, “as there are millions who want to come in. We don’t know if
Europe will remain an advanced and united continent, or if it will be destroyed,
as happened with the barbarian invasions.”
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton cackled barbarically
when she learned of the demise of Col. Gadhafi, but the colonel is having the
last laugh.