17/KILLING GADDAFI

KILLING GADDAFI.

I might get round to saying a lot more about this. I want to make something clear, something that should be obvious to anyone with two or more brain cells.

For Crusaders to turn up and kill Muslim leaders, no matter who they are or what they have done, is completely intolerable.

It is a national disgrace that we are represented by political halfwits like Cameron, who can say wink wink, nudge nudge we might get round to killing Gaddafi.

WORDS FAIL ME ON THIS, AT THE MOMENT.

Anyone who does not understand the psychology of this sort of thing, is one hundred per cent unworthy of public office in Britain.

Rowan Alder, Tuesday 22nd March 2011.

16/OPEN LETTER TO WILLIAM HAGUE

OPEN LETTER TO WILLIAM HAGUE.

Hi There, William Hague.

In my opinion you are temperamentally unsuited to the job of Foreign Secretary However I wish you well in presiding over endeavours in the crisis management of the current Libyan situation. And of course Britain could, and now should, have a decisive political influence in the matter. I suggest you make clear a particular political objective by stating the following:

"We certainly don't want to impose the political norms of a Western liberal democracy on a nation with the background of an Arabic culture.

However we do recommend such political norms. An end point to our present intervention in Libya would be free and fair elections in Libya.

If Gaddafi is as popular with HIS people as he claims to be, there would be overwhelming support for him and he would get reelected, or rather reappointed. That would be just fine by us. The will of the Libyan people and so on. Good Luck to Gaddafi in t his regard.

However our interpretation of Gaddafi's use of phrases such as my people, my country and so on, is that he claims ownership of the Libyan people, an ownership which overrides any rights Libyan people may have as individuals. Gaddafi apparently claims the right to manage the Libyan people whimsically, and indeed cruelly in any way he sees fit.

We believe there is overwhelming evidence that Gaddafi has for examples used torture and air to surface missiles as means of political repression. Whether or not that sort of thing is a basis for Gaddafi being reappointed, remains to be seen. A reasonable end to our present intervention in Libya would be the occurrence in Libya of circumstances in which the Libyan people could make clear their collective political will."

Hague, Old Boy, you may gain politically from effective crisis management. Good Luck to you, if you do so. However, in my opinion competent politicians prevent the occurrence of crises.

Yours Sincerely, Tom Smith, Tuesday 22nd March 2011.