Dreams of a Liberal Libya
24th October 2011
Scott Johnson at Powerline likes to point and laugh.
In his statement marking the death of Muhammar Gaddafi last week, President Obama inserted a mystifying passage: “[T]he Libyan people now have a great responsibility — to build an inclusive and tolerant and democratic Libya that stands as the ultimate rebuke to Qaddafi’s dictatorship….”
“An inclusive and tolerant and democratic Libya.” Can we mull that over with a glass of wine at the faculty club?
Obama is the poster child for Leftists Out of Touch With Reality.
No sooner had Obama read his statement than Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council and de facto president, announced that Libyan laws would have Sharia as their “basic source.” Just to get the ball rolling, he immediately lifted one law from Gaddafi’s era that he said was in conflict with Sharia — the law banning polygamy. Happy days are here again.
Yeah, there’s that Hope and Change stuff in action.