Leaving Libya, Part II

Yesterday I made the offhand comment that a couple colonels got orders to bomb civilians, jumped in their planes, and hi-tailed it to Malta. Five hours ago, a Libyan warship pulled into Malta after refusing to shell the city of Benghazi. As of a few hours ago, a second Libyan warship is heading in the same direction.

Now the UN Security Council is meeting after officially condemning Kadafi's actions. Their decision should be simple: let the Libyans oust their own dictator, eviscerate him, celebrate, and then send a small pecaekeeping force in to make sure that in her own excitement Libya doesn't manage to set herself on fire.

Something to mull over: Libya, under Kadafi, the man who saw protesters chanting in the streets for a change of government and decided the optimal solution would be to blast his own fucking country into the stone age, is on the UN Human Rights council.

Enough politics. Tomorrow we talk religion, because I haven't taken a potshot at a preacher in too long. Keep to the streets.

Mahalo,

Tambour