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"Yama" wrote:

"Chad Irby" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Yama" wrote:
Actually, Libyans began reconcilation with West after 1993, when UN
sanctions ruined shaky Libyan economy. That culminated to turning over
Lockerbie suspects in 1999. USA has kept the sanctions in effect.

...and *nothing* else has happened. Years and years of sanctions, and
they gave up a couple of guys (one of whom is in a "prison" better than
the place most people call home).

On the other hand, one little invasion of a country a thousand miles
away, and Libya gives up their WMD programs. And not to "the
international community," but to Britain and the US.

Perhaps in some weird parallel universe.

No, in this one. In the parallele universe, Libya paid attention to the
international community, and stopped back in 1990 or so. In this one,
they kep up their programs, with zero interference (and, apparently,
zero knowledge) on the part of the rest of the world, until March of
this year. Guess what else was happening in March 2003...

There's a sudden rush by the rest of the world to take credit for
fifteen years of diplomatic failures, and a similar rush to *not* notice
a direct correspondence with the US kicking the crap out of another
dictator.

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