[Debate] The Islamists did not win the recent Libyan elections

[Riaz K Tayob]

Why not a third option of a political solution?

This question can be posed differently along the same lines, in the 
absence of a counterfactual, is the current circumstances (based on the 
mandate of the UN resolution) sufficient, or could more have been done 
better?

Riaz

On 2012/07/13 09:30 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Jul 13, 2012, at 2:23 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>> So, tens of thousands of Libyans on both sides died . . . for the man
>> in charge of privatization in the "Great Socialist People's Libyan
>> Arab Jamahiriya."  If all that most Libyans wanted were Mahmoud
>> Jibril, though, they would have eventually gotten him without any coup
>> or war.
> So they should have just stuck with Gaddafi then, right? Why not show some nerve and honesty and admit that for a change?
>
> Doug
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