Libya and 43
Bill McGurn ·
Mar 2, 2011 at 7:44am
From a tweet this morning by Ari Fleischer:
Thank you Pres Bush. Imagine Libya if Gadaffi still had his nuke weapons program. Why did he he give it up? He feared the USA.
Ari is referring, of course, to the deal under which Gadaffi gave us his nuclear programs to develop missiles and weapons, and also gave up assisting international terrorists. Didn't make him any less ruthless to his own people, but you do have to wonder what it might be like today if he still had his nuclear programs. Elliott Abrams had a good piece on this in the WSJ last week.
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Oct '10
Re: Libya and 43
I remember being shocked that I had to find out about Gadaffi voluntarily giving up WMD, in response to the Iraq war, by reading National Review. I read the article to a classroom of Northern California HS seniors. There was this really interesting silence after I read the article--the sort of silence that suggests people are being forced to rethink something. Did the MSM really just pass over Gadaffi's decision? I don't read the papers that much, so I might easily have missed something.
The story really deserves to be better known.
Nov '10
Re: Libya and 43
Thanks for the heads up on that. I remember it happening, and appreciated its significance more in lines as being a validation of the President's impact on the region. It sure was nice for a while when folks believed the US said what it meant and meant what it said.
I was not so aware, though, about the details of our end of the bargain. Other than, of course, it eventually facilitated the release of the Pan Am bomber.