Last week, the
BBC rightly but cruelly replayed David Cameron’s ludicrous words from September
2011, when he went to Tripoli to say: ‘Your city was an inspiration to the
world as you overthrew a dictator and chose freedom.’
Now
it’s an inspiration to nobody. He can’t go there to say so, because it’s too
dangerous.
Why isn’t he in more trouble over his active destruction of an
entire country? It’s all very strange.
The
Gaddafi regime fell because Mr Cameron lent the RAF to various gangs of Libyan
jihadis (about whom we knew nothing - speak for yourself, and indeed look up your own stuff).
But
less than a year before, in October 2010, Henry Bellingham, a Tory Minister,
was referring to Gaddafi as ‘Brother Leader’ at a summit in Tripoli.
About
the same time, another Minister, Alistair Burt, told the Libyan-British
Business Council that Libya had ‘turned a corner’ which ‘has paved the way for
us to begin working together again’.
What
changed?
Could it be the same forces which decreed that flags in Britain should
fly at half-mast to mark the death of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia?
The
Saudis always hated Libya’s dictator because he had overthrown a dynasty very
like their own.
Do
we still have an independent foreign policy, or is it governed by another,
richer country?
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