Gaddafi also said that it was a small number of people under the influence of drugs. I wonder what kind of drugs he is on.
As I remember correctly, he also said the drugs were put into people's yogurts
This could be really funny, if people weren't dying there.
Also it's quite obvious, what the main concerns of the Americans and Europeans are. The Americans fear for their oil supply and the Europeans are afraid of African refugees flooding into Europe.
The USA will keep out of this, though, as long as their oil supply isn't at stake. The oil is the real drug here. The drug the Western countries depend on. Our fuel prices are already climbing, don't know how it is in the USA.
There are indications, that the world's oil reserves are actually much lower, than we are made to believe. Exact numbers are being held back by the oil producing countries, so nobody outside the inner circle really knows. Since the Arabian countries are making such a fuzz about keeping the actual numbers to themselves, one can only assume the situation is worse, than most experts believe.
The regimes in most of the countries of the Arabian peninsula are not much better, than Ghaddafi -- they only were able to throw a glamour frock over themselves, are rich enough to buy their people's loyalty and enjoy the support of the United States. Will be interesting to see, how Obama reacts, when Saudi Arabia gets its share of the unrest and the oil support of the USA is threatened.
This can become very dirty.
The optimistic part of me hopes, that everyhing turns out well, that the region stabilizes, that the North African and Arabian countries manage the transition to democracy and that religious fundamentalism isn't part of the game anymore (Al Quaida obviously just sits there open-mouthed at the moment, without a clue about their future strategy).
The pessimistic part of me thinks, that we could actually be seeing the beginnings of wars for resources now.