LIBYA, IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, & OBAMA MYOPIA:  U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S CLUELESS & OVER-CONFIDENT STATEMENTS REGARDING THE MIDDLE EASTERN SITUATION -- OBAMA'S PHONY CLAIMS OF U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY SUCCESSES IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- HIS FAILURE TO GUARD HIS TONGUE & EXERCISE CAUTION -- WHAT WILL PROBABLY GO WRONG IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST -- WHY OBAMA & THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WILL SOON RUE THE PRESIDENT'S RASH BOASTS -- POLITICAL PROBLEMS AHEAD FOR OBAMA & THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS -- THE POLITICAL LEFT & THE ELECTORAL DISASTER IT IS LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE IN THE 2012 FEDERAL ELECTIONS & IN SUBSEQUENT U.S. ELECTIONS

WITH THE OVERTHROW & DEATH OF MUAMMAR AL-QADDAFI, WHAT TYPE OF GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM WILL EMERGE IN LIBYA?  WILL LIBYA BECOME SOME SORT WESTERN-STYLE CONSTITUTIONAL REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, RATHER THAN A HIGHLY AUTHORITARIAN, SHARIA-RULED ISLAMIST HELL-HOLE THAT WILL BECOME THE LATEST HAVEN FOR AL-QA'IDA?

AN APPRAISAL OF MU'AMMAR AL-QADDAFI'S FORTY-TWO-YEAR RULE OF LIBYA:  FAILURE OF QADDAFI TO REALIZE HIS DREAM OF UNIFYING ALL ARAB COUNTRIES INTO A SINGLE ARAB NATION-STATE, & THEN CONSOLIDATING THE ENTIRE MUSLIM WORLD INTO ONE UNIFIED ISLAMIC CALIPHATE -- HIS KEY ROLE IN THE INCREASE IN ENERGY PRICES THAT BEGAN IN 1972 & CONTINUES TO THIS DAY -- KICK ING OFF THE ISLAMIC REVIVAL THAT ALSO CONTINUES -- UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS TO SUBVERT THE GOVERNMENTS OF OTHER COUNTRIES -- A TURN TOWARD AFRICA & AN AMBITION TO DEVELOP WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION -- GIVING UP ON HIS NUCLEAR AMBITIONS -- THE BENGHAZI REBELLION, WHEN QADDAFI, IN RETREAT, REVERTED TO THE EXPLICIT BRUTALITY & VICIOUSNESS OF HIS EARLIER RULE -- LIBYANS IN GREAT NUMBERS REJECTING QADDAFI, HIS FAMILY, HIS REGIME, & HIS LEGACY

WITH MUAMAR QADDAFI VOWING A WIN OR MARTYRDOM & BASHAR ASSAD BEING URGED BY THE WEST TO STEP DOWN, WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE ARAB SPRING THIS SUMMER? HAS IT BEEN A SUMMER OF PROGRESS TOWARD FREEDOM & CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST, OR IS IT A MEDIA DELUSION? WHERE STANDS THE ARAB SPRING AS WE PREPARE TO MARK THE TENTH ANNIVERSITY OF THE SEPTEMBER 11 ISLAMIST TERROR ATTACKS ON THE U.S.A.?

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