![]() Havana, Friday, October 28, 2011. Year 15 / Number 301 Hillary Clinton's Sadism We came, we saw, he died http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y http://youtu.be/Fgcd1ghag5Y THOMAS CASTROVIEJO http://www.walterlippmann.com/docs3316.html A CubaNews translation. Edited by Walter Lippmann. ![]() But what has really been appalling was the immediate comment, "We came, we saw, he died," which, surrounded by TV cameras, she made with clear satisfaction. It's hard to know what she was thinking. It's known that she is a cold woman, but it seemed as if she herself had ordered the attack on Gaddafi. An amazing arrogance coming from the woman who once called President George W. Bush a "cowboy". And quite probably she had not laughed in public so openly before. Such a spontaneous outburst from an extremely uptight woman was unseen, and the videos have spread like the plague. Nevertheless, we must not ignore the political implications evidenced by the joyful Clinton. Her country got involved in the Libyan conflict only after many days of hot speeches. It was necessary for British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy to take the Resolution to the UN Security Council for the US to openly support the military intervention in Libya. So, it wouldn't have been easy to claim victory as if it were its own. It's true that the US was not totally indifferent to Libya. Approximately 200 US citizens died in the famous Lockerbie attempt in 1988 at a time when Gaddafi was accused of sponsoring terrorism, before he changed and started, very successfully, to sell oil to the main nations in the world. We must not forget either the wide debate in the US on the advisability to intervene or not in Libya, before Cameron and Sarkozy took the first steps: Could a western power intervene in the Arab Spring? Many of the protagonists wanted the revolution to be their own; they didn't want theirs to become another Iraq. Be it as it may, it is hard to picture Hillary Clinton, the country's main diplomat going, seeing and killing Gaddafi. (The Guardian, The Huffington Post) |
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