Gadhafi to lead African Union

[bixaorellana]

Even factoring my ignorance about affairs in the continent, this seems a alarming choice.
The article explains how it came about, but would those of you who know Africa care to comment?
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090203/ap_on_re_af/af_au_gadhafi

[Deleted]

It's unfortunate, but I can imagine a lot of the African countries choosing him because he is the mostly likely to give them lots of money and/or oil.

[Deleted]

How the world changes in just a few years!

[mossie]

And not necessarily for the better.

I do wish we would stop telling other countries how to run their own lives, they should be allowed to do their own thing. If they get themselves a bloodthirsty dictator in charge, well, that is their lookout. We have only to look back into our own history to see that we have had some pretty nasty rulers, and we had ways of dealing with them, as the recent exhumation and analysis of King Richard the Third showed. See here www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/world/europe/richard-the-third-bones.html

We wouldn't like it if the Libyans told us what to do.

[kerouac2]

I dug up this old thread just for the fun of it. How the world moves on and we (mostly) forget the past!