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ستندمون يوم لا ينفع الندم.
Muammar Gaddafi
What is patriotism? Let us begin with what patriotism is not. It is not patriotic to dodge the draft and to mock war heroes and their families. It is not patriotic to discriminate against active-duty members of the armed forces in one’s companies, or to campaign to keep disabled veterans away from one’s property. It is not patriotic to compare one’s search for sexual partners in New York with the military service in Vietnam that one has dodged. It is not patriotic to avoid paying taxes, especially when American working families do pay. It is not patriotic to ask those working, taxpaying American families to finance one’s own presidential campaign, and then to spend their contributions in one’s own companies. It is not patriotic to admire foreign dictators. It is not patriotic to cultivate a relationship with Muammar Gaddafi; or to say that Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin are superior leaders. It is not patriotic to call upon Russia to intervene in an American presidential election. It is not patriotic to cite Russian propaganda at rallies. It is not patriotic to share an adviser with Russian oligarchs. It is not patriotic to solicit foreign policy advice from someone who owns shares in a Russian energy company. It is not patriotic to read a foreign policy speech written by someone on the payroll of a Russian energy company. It is not patriotic to appoint a national security adviser who has taken money from a Russian propaganda organ. It is not patriotic to appoint as secretary of state an oilman with Russian financial interests who is the director of a Russian-American energy company and has received the “Order of Friendship” from Putin. The point is not that Russia and America must be enemies. The point is that patriotism involves serving your own country. The
Timothy Snyder (On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century)
I am not going to leave this land, I will die as a martyr at the end … I shall remain, defiant. Muammar is leader of the revolution until the end of time.
Muammar Gaddafi
Once a ruler becomes religious, it becomes impossible for you to debate with him. Once someone rules in the name of religion, your lives become hell.
Muammar Gaddafi
We do not have to dig deep into history to understand the reality. The examples of Saddam Hussain, who was executed after a sham trial and the case of Muammar Gaddafi, who killed after surrendering in broad daylight, have given enough factual reality to understand the painful truth.
Nilantha Ilangamuwa
إن الصراع السياسي الذي يسفر عن فوز مرشح ما بنسبة 51 % مثلا من مجموع أصوات الناخبين تكون نتيجته أداة حكم دكتاتورية ولكن في ثوب ديمقراطي مزيف، حيث إن 49% من الناخبين تحكمهم أداة حكم لم ينتخبوها ، بل فرضت عليهم ، وتلك هي الدكتاتورية
Muammar Gaddafi (الكتاب الأخضر)
Then there was David, lording it up at Buckingham Palace, thinking he was king of the shit heap. That guy was definitely nuts, like every dictator that had gone before him. Nero, Caligula, Henry the Eighth, Napoleon, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Margaret Thatcher, Colonel Gaddafi, that crazy North Korean bastard who was in Team America, Kim Jong whatever.
Charlie Higson (The Sacrifice (The Enemy #4))
إن المجتمعات الصناعية في هذا العصر التي كيفت المرأة للعمل المادي مثل الرجل على حساب أنوثتها ودورها الطبيعي في الحياة ، من الناحية الجمالية والأمومة و السكينة ، هي مجتمعات غير حضارية.. هي مجتـمعـات مادية.. وليست متـحضرة.. ومن الغباء والخطر على الحضارة والإنسانية تقليدها
Muammar Gaddafi (الكتاب الأخضر)
الحرية هي أن يتعلم كل إنسان المعرفة التي تناسبه والتي تؤهله لعمل يناسبه والدكتاتورية هي أن يتعلم الإنسان معرفة لا تناسبه .. وتقوده إلى عمل لا يناسبه
Muammar Gaddafi (الكتاب الأخضر)
إن الحزب هو حكم جزء للكل ... وهو آخر الأدوات الدكتاتورية حتى الآن
Muammar Gaddafi (الكتاب الأخضر)
I won't be a party to a conspiracy to mobilize the Arabs against the Persians. Only the forces of colonialism benefit from such a conspiracy. I won't be a party to a conspiracy that splits Islam into two - Shiite Islam and Sunni Islam - mobilizing Sunni Islam against Shiite Islam.
Muammar Gaddafi
It was far easier for me to see how the war in Syria was in part an unintended consequence of other American wars, no matter how well-meaning they might have been. The toppling of “Saddam Hussein had strengthened Iran, provoked Putin, opened up a Pandora’s box of sectarian conflict that now raged in Iraq and Syria, and led to an insurgency that had given birth to ISIL. The toppling of Muammar Gaddafi had made plain to dictators that you either cling to power or end up dead in a sewer. Syria looked more and more like a moral morass—a place where our inaction was a tragedy, and our intervention would only compound the tragedy. Obama kept probing for options that could make a positive difference, finding none.
Ben Rhodes (The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House)
إن آخر عصر من عصور الرق كان استرقاق الجنس الأبيض للجنس الأسود . وهذا العصر سيظل ماثلاً في ذهن الإنسان الأسود حتى يشعر بأنه قد رد اعتباره . إن هذا الحـدث التـاريخي المأساوي، والشعور المؤلم به ، والبحث النفسي عن حالة شعور بالرضا لرد الاعتبار لجنس بحاله هي سبب نفسي لا يمكن تجاهله في حركة الجنس الأسود ليثأر لنفسه وليسود
Muammar Gaddafi (الكتاب الأخضر)
So many Libyans felt they’d been avenged by this symbolic gesture. Before his appointment with death, the rapist was raped.
Annick Cojean (Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya)
المجلس النيابي يقوم أساساً نيابة عن الشعب ، وهذا الأساس ذاته غير ديمقراطي ؛ لأن الديمقراطية تعني سلطة الشعب لا سلطة نائبة عنه
Muammar Gaddafi (الكتاب الأخضر)
Blessed are the wretched. How beautiful will be their dawn and how sweet and great will be their victory.
Muammar Gaddafi
The Islamic world can be viewed as an onion-layered multiple dictatorship: the dictatorship of political dynasties like the Mubarak, Gaddafi, Hussein, Ben Ali, and Assad families forms its first layer; the dictatorship of the military, the next; after that, that the dictatorship of religion, which determines how children are raised and educated; and finally, the dictatorship of society, which impacts life within families through archaic gender roles.
Hamed Abdel-Samad
In the process, you obscure the actual reasons why people might risk their life to cross the sea – the wars and dictators that forced them from their homes. By denying the existence of these real root causes you simultaneously absolve yourself from the duty of providing sanctuary to those fleeing from them. Acknowledging this duty would prove very problematic: it would be an admission that your own failure to do so previously was the reason why so many thousands then turned in their desperation to smugglers – and why so many of them then drowned in the ocean. It would be an admission that a Syrian boards a boat only when he realises that there’s no realistic means of winning asylum from the Middle East. And an admission that Libya’s current predicament is in part the result of NATO’s (justifiable) airstrikes against Gaddafi in 2011 – and subsequent (and unjustifiable) failure to help Libya’s post-Gaddafi transition.
Patrick Kingsley (The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis)
It is not patriotic to admire foreign dictators. It is not patriotic to cultivate a relationship with Muammar Gaddafi; or to say that Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin are superior leaders. It is not patriotic to call upon foreign leaders to intervene in American presidential elections. It is not patriotic to cite Russian propaganda at rallies. It is not patriotic to share an adviser with Russian oligarchs. It is not patriotic to appoint advisers with financial interests in Russian companies. It is not patriotic to appoint a National Security Advisor who likes to be called “General Misha,” nor to pardon him for his crimes. It is not patriotic when that pardoned official calls for martial law. It is not patriotic to refer to American soldiers as “losers” and “suckers.” It is not patriotic to take health care from families, nor to golf your way through a national epidemic in which half a million Americans die. It is not patriotic to try to sabotage an American election, nor to claim victory after defeat. It is not patriotic to try to end democracy.
Timothy Snyder (On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century)
Who would dream of bringing charges against the devil when you are in hell?
Annick Cojean (Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya)
History is replete with rulers who maintained stability at the cost of justice, humanity and morality. Everyone from Adolf Hitler to Saddam Hussein to Muammar Gaddafi managed productive economies, sophisticated bureaucracies and large populations whilst simultaneously generating simmering dissent.
Sidin Vadukut (The Sceptical Patriot: Exploring the Truths Behind the Zero and Other Indian Glories)
vested interests that financed their election campaigns. In August 2011, as Colonel Gaddafi’s regime in Libya was falling apart, a BBC correspondent in Benghazi spotted some remarkable graffiti on a wall. On the left side of the wall there was a classically straightforward revolutionary message: ‘The tyrant should fall, he’s a monster.’ Direct and to the point. But on the right side, the message was anything but simple. It read: ‘We want constitutional rule and for the president to have less authority and the four-year presidential term should not be extended.’17 As that (quite correctly) suggests, the devil in any
Niall Ferguson (The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die)
Liberia got Petroleum (Oil): The problem of development lies in good leadership and great communication. Some of our leaders want to turn the country's oil company into the Gaddafi regime of Libya that they could rule Liberia and their sons and grand kids can also rule as well. It's a form of oppression. The Liberian people want a leader, not an oppressor or an installed puppet. Someone who will put the country and its peoples' interest first. Not a corrupt politician who's out to rip the country apart, in the name of enriching their families.
Henry Johnson Jr
The world is tearing itself apart,” the retired General began. “This administration is compromising national security. In another few years he will be gone to go write his memoirs and tour the country doing speaking engagements before picking up a job in some think tank. Then guys like you and me will be left holding the mess that he created. We will have inherited an unworkable situation in the Middle East. “He forced Mubarak out; clearly the wrong move. We had a good deal going with Gaddafi and many worked very hard to get him into our camp, but we did flip him. Then the President helps the militias overthrow him without the slightest understanding of the region and the complicated east, west, and south tribal conflict overlaid on top of sectarian issues.
Jack Murphy (Direct Action (Deckard, #3))
In Washington, for example.” Rousseau set off along the embankment. “The invasion of Iraq turned the region into a cauldron. And when the new American president decided the time had come to withdraw, the cauldron boiled over. And then there was this folly we called the Arab Spring. Mubarak must go! Gaddafi must go! Assad must go!” He shook his head slowly. “It was madness, absolute madness. And now we are left with this. ISIS controls a swath of territory the size of the United Kingdom, right on the doorstep of Europe. Even Bin Laden would have never dared to dream of such a thing. And what does the American president tell us? ISIS is not Islamic. ISIS is the jayvee team.” He frowned. “What does this mean? Jayvee?” “I think it has something to do with basketball.” “And what does basketball have to do with a subject as serious as the rise of the caliphate?” Gabriel only smiled. “Does he truly believe this drivel, or is it an ignorantia affectata?” “A willful ignorance?” “Yes.
Daniel Silva (The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16))
The invasion of Iraq turned the region into a cauldron. And when the new American president decided the time had come to withdraw, the cauldron boiled over. And then there was this folly we called the Arab Spring. Mubarak must go! Gaddafi must go! Assad must go!” He shook his head slowly. “It was madness, absolute madness. And now we are left with this. ISIS controls a swath of territory the size of the United Kingdom, right on the doorstep of Europe. Even Bin Laden would have never dared to dream of such a thing. And what does the American president tell us? ISIS is not Islamic. ISIS is the jayvee team.
Daniel Silva (The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16))
I tell you one thing. Black and Asian people should come here [to Europe] in the hundreds of millions. It’s not right that for 500 years, imperialism has looted our countries of all our wealth, has destroyed our countries. We will come here, we have been coming here, and we will continue to come here in hundreds of millions until indeed, as Gaddafi said, Europe will turn black.
Sukant Chandan
Saddam never had weapons of mass destruction, he had a weapon much worse. The weapon had no name but the damage it would have done would have brought the United States of America to its knees without a shot being fired. How does this weapon work? It works by exchanging one chemical for another chemical. The chemicals are oil and gold. This threat to the USA was why oil barons ordered the U.S. government to eliminate Saddam at once. Libya tried to use the same weapon against the USA and, again, the oil barons ordered Gaddafi to be eliminated and he was. Next on the list of countries who possess this massive weapon which are threats to the oil barons are Venezuela and Iran.
James Thomas Kesterson Jr
Clearly, the humanitarian relation is not a relation between equals. We are not our "brother's keepers" then, but rather we are more like animal keepers. Bombing for us is really just an animal management technology, and our relationship to the world remains a zoological one.
Maximilian Forte
موقعی که شما در جهنم هستید ,چگونه میتوانید شیطان را متهم کنید؟
Annick Cojean (Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya)
Invoking the name of Al Gaddafi cured my blue screen of death
Matt Ruff (The Mirage)
Thus all civilian officials and military officers in the United States government who either knew or should have known that the Reagan administration intended to assassinate Qaddafi and participated in the bombing operation are “war criminals” according to the U.S. government’s own official definition of that term. The American people should not have permitted any aspect of their foreign affairs and defense policies to be conducted by acknowledged “war criminals.” They should have insisted upon the impeachment, dismissal, resignation, and prosecution of all U.S. government officials guilty of such war crimes. Nevertheless, U.S. public opinion had been so effectively brutalized by five years of Reaganism that over three-quarters of the American people rallied to the support of their demented leadership over the destruction, injuries, and death it had inflicted upon hundreds of innocent civilians in Tripoli and Benghazi.
Francis A. Boyle (Destroying Libya and World Order: The Three-Decade U.S. Campaign to Terminate the Qaddafi Revolution)
Ob Afghanistan, Irak, Libyen oder Syrien: Der Westen hat in fremde Kriege und schwelende Konflikte eingegriffen und jeweils versucht, einem Gewinner nach eigenem Gusto an die Macht zu verhelfen. Der Vorwand war stets derselbe: Die jeweiligen Herrscher, die Taliban, Saddam, Gaddafi oder Assad, seien von dämonischer Bosheit, irre, fanatisch, gefährlich und genössen so gut wie keine Unterstützung unter der eigenen Bevölkerung. In Libyen führte die militärische Einmischung von außen zum Sieg einer Aufstandsbewegung, die aus eigener Kraft nicht stark genug war, sich gegen Gaddafi durchzusetzen und anschließend die Selbstzerstörung zum Programm erhob. Der Rückfluss von Söldnern aus Libyen bewirkte eine weitere Destabilisierung der Sahelzone und schwarzafrikanischer Staaten, darunter auch Kamerun, Niger und Tschad. In Afghanistan zeichnet sich ab, dass die Taliban nach dem zumindest formellen Abzug der westlichen Besatzer wohl erneut zur stärksten politischen Kraft werden. Im Irak trieben die Amerikaner die von ihnen entmachteten Sunniten, die sich außerdem einer rachsüchtigen, schiitischen Zentralregierung gegenübersahen, geradewegs in die Hände einer Aufstandsbewegung, aus deren Reihen der «Islamische Staat» hervorging. Und ohne die Entschlossenheit der «Freunde des syrischen Volkes», Assad um jeden Preis zu stürzen, hätte der IS in Syrien niemals Fuß fassen können.
Michael Lüders (Wer den Wind sät: Was westliche Politik im Orient anrichtet)
Harvard University biologist David Haig has spent the last few years systematically debunking the notion that the relationship between a mother and her unborn child is anything like the rose-tinted idyll that one usually finds on the glossy covers of maternity magazines. In fact, it is anything but. Pre-eclampsia, a condition of dangerously high blood pressure in pregnant women, is brutally kick-started by nothing short of a foetal coup d’état. It begins with the placenta invading the maternal bloodstream and initiating what, in anyone’s book, is a ruthless biological heist – an in utero sting operation to draw out vital nutrients. And I’m not just talking about baby Gordon Gekkos here – I’m talking about all of us. The curtain-raiser is well known to obstetricians. The foetus begins by injecting a crucial protein into the mother’s circulation which forces her to drive more blood, and therefore more nourishment, into the relatively low-pressure placenta. It’s a scam, pure and simple, which poses a significant and immediate risk to the mother’s life. ‘The bastard!’ says Andy. ‘Shall we get some olives?’ ‘And it’s by no means the only one,’ I continue. In another embryonic Ponzi scheme, foetal release of placental lactogen counteracts the effect of maternal insulin thereby increasing the mother’s blood sugar level and providing an excess for the foetus’s own benefit. ‘A bowl of the citrus and chilli and a bowl of the sweet pepper and basil,’ Andy says to the waiter. Then he peers at me over the menu. ‘So basically what you’re saying then is this: forget the Gaddafis and the Husseins. When it comes to chemical warfare it’s the unborn child that’s top dog!’ ‘Well they definitely nick stuff that isn’t theirs,’ I say. ‘And they don’t give a damn about the consequences.’ Andy smiles. ‘So in other words they’re psychopaths!’ he says. BABY
Andy McNab (The Good Psychopath's Guide to Success (Good Psychopath 1))
After this encounter, and despite being a US ally, the Italian government alerted Libya of the incoming attack. Whatever their motives may have been, the Italians succeeded in alerting Gaddafi at his Bab al-Aziziya residence only minutes before the F-111s arrived.
Mike Guardia (Tomcat Fury: A Combat History of the F-14)
After this encounter, and despite being a US ally, the Italian government alerted Libya of the incoming attack. Whatever their motives may have been, the Italians succeeded in alerting Gaddafi at his Bab al-Aziziya residence only minutes before the F-111s arrived. The Libyan leader barely escaped with his family.
Mike Guardia (Tomcat Fury: A Combat History of the F-14)
before the lynching, the bodies, the bullets, the crush, a rebel violently shoved a wooden or metal stick between the buttocks of the fallen dictator, who immediately began to bleed. “Raped!” one of the two women said without an ounce of regret.
Annick Cojean (Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya)
the US would never have said... oh Zelenskyy was bombing his own people... the way they said that about Gaddafi or Assad... the Hypocrisy is staggering.
Max Blumenthal
The city is a fad, a shouting, bedazzlement, stupid imitation, damned consumerism. Making demands while not giving anything in return, a meaningless existence. What is worse is the inability to resist life in the city. City inhabitants are unable to resist fashions, even if they do not like them. There is no ability to resist the movement toward loss or voracious consumption. Even if you are an intruder, a recent arrival in the city and not one of its original inhabitants, who have become used to its ways, you will in the end become its laughing-stock. If you wish to maintain what you believe in, maintain your values and your non-urban behaviour, you will become an outcast and find no one who understands you. When you change, though in order to become urban, you will become awkward and fatuous.
Muammar Gaddafi (Escape to Hell and Other Stories)
The truly strange thing in your lives is that you not only fail, but fail to learn your lesson.
Muammar Gaddafi (Escape to Hell and Other Stories)
The world of the impotent sits squatting on the straw of the life of illusion. Its law is one of renunciation and defeat, submission to all forms of plunder and pillage. It is based on deliverance from the burdens of the ready-made and moral searches, to comprehend the humiliation and justify it. It is based on a readiness to undertake hereditary or future costuming in order to fell from the conflict of the present.
Muammar Gaddafi (Escape to Hell and Other Stories)
When Haughey emphasised that ‘a very keen sense of injustice [was] rampant in Ireland’, Mrs Thatcher asked for how long these emotions had lasted. The Taoiseach said, ‘700 years in our country.
Jennifer O'Leary (The Padre: The True Story of the Irish Priest who armed the IRA with Gaddafi’s Money)
He’s going to open you. From here on in you will be his possession and you’ll never leave him. So stop making that face. It’s no use resisting or wishing things were different—that won’t change anything here!
Annick Cojean (Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya)
Colonel Gaddafi was sitting under a tree that I had planted, we had planted several thousand hectares of forest there in Mauritania. He was sitting there under that tree and he was drinking the salted coffee that the Bedouins drink. And he was impressed. He asked me to work out a project with him in Libya as well.
Prince Laurent of Belgium
Before I got the Royal endowment, I was not allowed to work. I always wanted to. And I have always been contradicted on that front. I have never asked to depend on others, I have always wanted to be independent. That's why I want to do these projects.
Prince Laurent of Belgium
I may not always be taken seriously. I often come off as rather humorous: not serious, not academic enough. But that is simply not my style. I regret that I often get comments about that. That people think I have no sense of reality. But people don't know me. Sometimes I find it really disturbing, the criticism I've been getting since I was young. I'm 55 now: if I had really done something wrong, it would have been known by now.
Prince Laurent of Belgium
I've experienced things I didn't want to know and I'm not happy at all with what's happening now. Those bad people will one day have to answer for their actions. I tell you again: in Libya there are people who have been murdered, because of the money that has been released here. And exactly no one has done it.
Prince Laurent of Belgium
ঘোড়সওয়াররা যারা তাদের ঘোড়ার লাগাম ধরে রাখে তাদের রেসকোর্সের গ্র্যান্ডস্ট্যান্ডে কোন আসন থাকে না।
Muammar Gaddafi (Gaddafi's "The Green Book")
Change in leadership brands must be influenced and proactively effected at a personal level, it can never be forced from outside with sustainable effectiveness. Saddam Hussein, Muammar al Gaddafi and Hosni Mubarak are all political trophies, yet the effects of the military or “civil” initiatives that toppled them, are nothing to be proud of considering what continues to happen in countries like Iraq, Libya, Egypt and Syria, after the use of force to bring political change.
Archibald Marwizi (Making Success Deliberate)
Throughout my years inside the IRA, there was always a desperate shortage of good-quality, modern hand-guns.  The IRA had ample supplies of AK-47s, hundreds of which had been supplied virtually free of charge by the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation) and Colonel Gaddafi of Libya. A
Martin McGartland (Fifty Dead Men Walking: A true story of a secret agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA))
It was the French who fired the first shot. That evening Rafale fighters bombed a convoy of Gaddafi’s tanks and armored vehicles just outside Benghazi. Operation Odyssey Dawn had begun. A short while later 110 cruise missiles were launched from U.S. ships in the Gulf, targeting radar, communications, fuel storage and air defenses around Tripoli and Misrata, followed by air strikes from British Tornados.
Lindsey Hilsum (Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution)
The LIFG were focused on Gaddafi’s regime and had never attacked civilians or foreigners. But violence was at the heart of their ideology. Negotiating or reconciling with an enemy was forbidden; their beliefs were absolute and incontrovertible. They drew no distinction between civilians and soldiers, only Muslims and non-Muslims.
Lindsey Hilsum (Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution)
Gaddafi became an icon for those fighting apartheid in South Africa. He supported the African National Congress with money, weapons and training, earning the undying gratitude of Nelson Mandela, which caused immense diplomatic inconvenience in later years, when Gaddafi was still a pariah and Mandela the toast of the world.
Lindsey Hilsum (Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution)
Just outside Benghazi, in a heavily guarded complex unseen by the outside world, Gaddafi built the World Revolutionary Headquarters, a training facility for anyone who might like to have a go at overthrowing a regime he didn’t like. It was part of the mathaba, the World Center for Resistance against Imperialism, Zionism, Racism, Reaction and Fascism.
Lindsey Hilsum (Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution)
I am a Muslim, an Arab and a Libyan,” she said. “I have to tell you that democracy cannot work here. It’s not possible with Arabs. Gaddafi did a lot for Libya.
Lindsey Hilsum (Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution)
In 1982, when Arafat and his Fatah fighters were besieged in Beirut, on the brink of being pushed out of Lebanon by the Israelis, Gaddafi sent him an open telegram suggesting his best option was to kill himself. “Your suicide will immortalize the cause of Palestine for future generations,” he said. “There is a decision which, if taken by you, no one can prevent. It is the decision to die. Let this be.” Arafat is reported to have replied that if Gaddafi would like to join him, he might consider it.
Lindsey Hilsum (Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution)
In honor of cucumber time, I give you this from the old newspaper clippings box in the “How Can That Be Possible?” category: some years ago Berlusconi was presented with an award for his human rights’ record by none other than…Muammar Gaddafi.
Hendrik Groen (The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old)
The Sunday Times executive editor, Bob Tyrer, commissioned a long historical piece on Gaddafi, but Marie was focused on the news. “Tyrer wants profile,” she wrote in her diary. “I ignore.
Lindsey Hilsum (In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin)
With the decline of the United States as the world’s leader, I find it important to look around our globe for intelligent people who have the depth of understanding that could perhaps chart a way to the future. One such person is Bernard-Henri Lévy a French philosopher who was born in Béni Saf, French Algeria on November 5, 1948. . The Boston Globe has said that he is "perhaps the most prominent intellectual in France today." Although his published work and political activism has fueled controversies, he invokes thought provoking insight into today’s controversial world and national views. As a young man and Zionist he was a war correspondent for “Combat” newspaper for the French Underground. Following the war Bernard attended Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris and in 1968; he graduated with a degree in philosophy from the famous École Normale Supérieure. This was followed by him traveling to India where he joined the International Brigade to aid Bangladeshi freedom fighters. Returning to Paris, Bernard founded the ‘New Philosophers School.’ At that time he wrote books bringing to light the dark side of French history. Although some of his books were criticized for their journalistic character and unbalanced approach to French history, but most respected French academics took a serious look at his position that Marxism was inherently corrupt. Some of his musings include the predicament of the Kurds and the Shame of Aleppo, referring to the plight of the children in Aleppo during the bloody Syrian civil war. Not everyone agrees with Bernard, as pointed out by an article “Why Does Everyone Hate Bernard-Henri Lévy?” However he is credited with nearly single handedly toppling Muammar Gaddafi. His reward was that in 2008 he was targeted for assassination by a Belgium-based Islamist militant group. Looking like a rock star and ladies man, with his signature dark suits and unbuttoned white shirt, he said that “democracies are not run by the truth,” and notes that the American president is not the author of the anti-intellectual movement it, but rather its product. He added that the anti-intellectualism movement that has swept the United States and Europe in the last 12 months has been a long time coming. The responsibility to support verified information and not publicize fake news as equal has been ignored. He said that the president may be the heart of the anti-intellectual movement, but social media is the mechanism! Not everyone agrees with Bernard; however his views require our attention. If we are to preserve our democracy we have to look at the big picture and let go of some of our partisan thinking. We can still save our democracy, but only if we become patriots instead of partisans!
Hank Bracker