USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: [Mwananchi] Fate and the American ambassador to Libya [EXTREMIST ISLAMIC MILITIAS STRIKE AGAIN]

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From: Jupiter Punungwe
Date: Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:18 PM
Subject: [Mwananchi] Fate and the American ambassador to Libya
To: zimbabwe2@yahoogroups.com, zimsite@yahoogroups.com, padare@yahoogroups.com, munhumutapa@googlegroups.com, mwananchi@yahoogroups.com

 

Fate can sometimes create circumstances of totally cruel irony. The late US ambassador to Libya sneaked in on a cargo ship in support of the very same militias at whose hands he has now died. I wouldn't be surprised at all of some of the weapons airdropped to the militias by Western governments were used in the attack that killed him.

When some of us were warning against choosing violence over negotiation in Libya, we were derisively dismissed as despicable Gadhaffi lovers. Yet our concerns were driven by the simple common sense that if you give a young men weapons and set them loose, you cannot switch them off like a light bulb once your purposes have been achieved.

This exactly what is happening in Libya. The militias are refusing to be switched off. With the flush feeling that comes from killing a high profile individual like an American ambassador, the militias are going to get more brazen.

Oh! People of Libya! When is this going to end for you.

Jupiter

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