Prof. Immanuel Wallerstein: "The Great Libyan Distraction"

[Rakhmetov]

"There is one thing on which Gaddafi and Western leaders of all political views are in total accord. They all want to slow down, channel, co-opt, limit the second Arab revolt and prevent it from changing the basic political realities of the Arab world and its role in the geopolitics of the world-system."

http://www.iwallerstein.com/great-libyan-distraction/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBMnDLQr7-M&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5g9-G94DTM

[khad]

And if there is any conspiracy, it is one between Qaddafi and the West to slow down, even quash, the Arab revolt.

I just wiped my ass with Wallerstein's books. Feels good.

[Rakhmetov]

I just wiped my ass with Wallerstein's books. Feels good.


Did it feel like sandpaper being wiped against your hemorrhoids giving you an inspired feeling of bubbly joy which could last for a week or more? You know the feeling one gets when you eat Fiber One for 2 weeks straight?

[Nolan]

That's a little far-fetched.

[Primavera]

I think it definitely has the effect of drawing the world's attention away from the crackdowns in other countries, as he says, but whether this was the primary motive seems shaky at best. It was probably at least a consideration. And to say it was done at the request of SA is pretty absurd... the US doesn't pander to its client states, its the other way around.

[Luís Henrique]

I just wiped my ass with Wallerstein's books. Feels good.

Perhaps then you shouldn't post in threads about Wallerstein.

Anyway, take care lest one of them slips into the inside. It could be painful to remove.

Luís Henrique