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| Ghadafi (f-r)and friends at the G8 L'Aquila Summit in 2009 |
Muammar Gadhafi recently expressed his "surprise" at not getting outside support in his "fight against terrorists" (referring to the current Libyan insurgency against his regime). Adding to the bizarre, he also opined that he (Gadhafi) was the buffer to a "black Europe".
Gadhafi had famously asked the European Union (EU) to pay him at least €5bn (£4bn; $6.3bn) a year, to stop illegal African immigration and thus prevent a "black Europe".
In his typically off-color style, Gadhafi goes on to state:
"We don't know... what will be the reaction of the white and Christian Europeans faced with this influx of starving and ignorant Africans"
He recently asserted again, in addition to his deluded rants that he is "fighting against terrorists (talk of the pot calling the kettle black), that if his current genocide against his own people were not allowed to continue, he would open the floodgates of Europe to "blacks from Sub-Saharan Africa".
Gadhafi made it quite clear in an interview with France 24 television channel that "millions of blacks could come to the Mediterranean to cross to France and Italy, and Libya plays a role in preventing this".
One sure wonders what the African leaders, who sat at the same table with this lunatic, now think of him, in light of his obvious lack of regard for them and their people.
Gadhafi is a savvy politician. Sure he is mad (that has never been in question), but he does understand the sensibilities of the likes of Silvio Berlusconi and Nicolas Sarkozy, amongst other European and western leaders.
He has dined with them and knowing fully well, what their worst fears are, he is using that capital and leverage to crush the rebellion from the east of Libya.
No one should therefore be surprised that the powers at NATO and the United States continue to stand pat while the butcher of Tripoli continues with air raids and helicopter gunships on civilians and children.
After all, the only thing worse than that, would be a "black Europe", something Berlusconi, Sarkozy, Merkel (who famously stated that "multiculturalism has utterly failed") and Cameron just can't stomach.
The rest of the world is watching....
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