Ghadaffi's Trojan Horse

international | eu | other press Saturday December 18, 2004 11:50 by hello ireland! howya doin? are you alright? - won't be long now.

Helping the War on Terror? Helping Bush get re-elected?

Italian class :-
La Storia Siamo Noi:
is a product of RAI the Italian equivalent of RTE.
it means "history is us".
And the director and presenter of the project just did an interview with Colonel Ghadaffi the dictator of Libya.


http://www.educational.rai.it/

They spoke aoubt many things-

How Ghadaffi helped the re-election of President Bush by not choosing to pursue a nuclear weapons program.

What Libya and Italy are doing together to stem the daily flow of desperate economic refugees and migrants (in italian called "clandestini") who cross the mediterranean on rafts.

Italy together with Spain sees the most of these entries, and every week, their custom forces take yet more corpses from the water. It isn't so easy to sail from the Southern Mediterranean "ancient provinces of the Roman empire" to the Northern Mediterranean "modern states of the European Union". But every day thousands try. And they have mostly crossed the desert which streches from southern Morrocco to Libya to do so.

Then the dictator of Libya spoke of his admiration for Canada.

Then he declared the Turkey's entry to the EU will be a "trojan's horse" for islamic fundamentalists.

Making an illusion to the anceint motto-
"beware of greeks bearing gifts". (quidquid
id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes)

This is odd, Ghadaffi might be yet another Brad Pitt fan, [ I was content just to have read the book by vrgil which is out of copyright ], but for those who's cultural understanding is a bit cinematic, after the fall of Troy when it was sacked by the assembled armies of Agemenon and his mercenaries who included Achilles, the survivors were believed to have dispersed across the mediterranean and indeed the Romans liked to believe that their own founders Romulus and Remus had been offspring of Trojans.

Many people with a lot of brains were happy to see Italy, then France and then the UK and ultimately the USA and Spain warm in their attitude to the dictator of Libya. They believed that welcoming one of those who provided weapons and organisational help to many terrorist organisations in their "popular left freedom struggle" previous incarnations, would bring a "local man" with "local sense" to the "War on terror".

The site of "la historia siamo noi" is not yet built.
Ironic. But if you follow the link you may watch and hear the interview, which in time will also have translation. But that page will be refreshed next weekend.
http://www.educational.rai.it/

or you can read about it in english here -
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=782
(on being a EU sceptic)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Italy%20Libya
(on helping Bush get re-elected)
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.:. I have tried to make it clear to as many people with subtle brains as I can, that Europe can be as big as it wants to be, from the Atlantic to the Urinal but when it excludes states it pushes yet more failure ahead of it's ambition, and one simple rule applies
- for the adhesion of Turkey, Libya, Morrocco, Israel and so on.
Europe is to be made of democratically accountable republics and constitutional monarchies. We're not working with dictatorships.
Coz we don't really trust the democracies we have, but we feel we can work with them to improve them. And you don't need to be a nobel prize winner to see why ;-)