The dubious anarchist.

AuthorWalker, Jesse
PositionLihya's Libertarian Rhetoric - Muammar al-Qaddafi - Brief Article

SINCE 9/11, Muammar al-Qaddafi has played a schizoid role in American foreign policy. On one hand, the Libyan dictator appears regularly on lists of terrorist statesmen the administration may intend to depose. On the other, he has repeatedly expressed interest in assisting the U.S. in the war on terror, a stance that fits his recent efforts at a rapprochement with Washington.

Speaking to Newsweek last year, Qaddafi claimed he was exchanging intelligence with the United States and Britain, so that Libyan terrorists operating in those countries could be "wiped out." Meanwhile, his country is still officially branded a rogue state but was excluded from

President Bush's Axis of Evil. That isn't the only contradiction in modern Libya. Since taking power in 1969, Qaddafi has been a rare beast: an autocrat who pretends to be an anarchist. On at least three occasions, the colonel has made a big show of abolishing the Libyan state...

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