The Ruled and the Poor

The ruled and the Poor. It is strange usually when the Americans are bombing places we are told how many got wounded and died in their air strikes. NATO has more or less carpet bombed Kaddafi’s people for six months, but not a word about causalities. That makes me thing they must be dropping chocolate drops and not real bombs. Kaddafi used to pitch his tent wherever he wanted in Europe and the high and mighty embraced him, but he was not to be trusted as he put Libya first in his oil dealings. We get the sense that he is universally hated by everybody in his country, but the poor benefited from his largesse and the middle classes got a free education, but of course not much room to express their enormous contempt for him. One day when the poor cannot afford a doctor in a democratic Libya and when teeth roots and fall out, there might be someone who say: under Kaddafi all this was free and now we are reduced to keep the streets clean for the educated rulers.