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KEN SILVERSTEIN?Benjamin Barber: Qaddafi?s Riefenstahl |
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Contributed by Ken Silverstein
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Marc Lynch has brought to my attention Benjamin Barber?s astonishing op-ed in the Washington Post about Libya and Colonel Qaddafi. Barber, the author of ?Jihad vs. McWorld,? has found a kinder, gentler Qaddafi who wants to steer his country towards democracy. ?Written off not long ago as an implacable despot, Gaddafi is a complex and adaptive thinker as well as an efficient, if laid-back, autocrat,? he writes. ?Unlike almost any other Arab ruler, he has exhibited an extraordinary capacity to rethink his country?s role in a changed and changing world.? Not since Leni Riefenstahl filmed ?Triumph of the Will? has an intellectual so cravenly toadied up to a dictator. And it gets worse as it goes. . . .
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