Obama urges Gaddafi loyalists lay down arms | Reuters
"Although it is clear Gaddafi's rule is over, he still has the opportunity to reduce bloodshed by explicitly relinquishing power to the people of Libya and calling for those forces that continue to fight to lay down their arms," Obama said.
All this Libyan stuff reminds me of when I was an idealistic college student and the leader of the valliant rebel band unseating the vicious, corrupt dictator, Batista, was Fidel Castro. I seem to remember a story in Life magazine, or maybe it was Time, or very possibly both, of Fidel in the back of the obligatory rebel pickup truck, heading down the road toward Havana.
The next morning, it was suddenly revealed Fidel was a commie and the entire U.S.A. fell into a swoon from which it has not yet recovered. I know as well as anyone Fidel was not exactly our BFF (can you spell "Cuban missile crisis"?) but still, that was half a century ago.
And does anybody know who those Libyan's are? I mean, yea freedom and all that, but still.
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