Qaddafi to Rice: We’re Frenemies
September 3rd, 2008 by Jason
Ahead of Secretary Rice’s historic visit to Libya later this week, Libyan president Moammar Gaddafi has said that Libya and the Unites States are no longer enemies but are not quite friends. “Let them leave us alone, and we would leave them alone,” he said. It will be the first visit by a secretary of state to Libya since John Foster Dulles in 1953.
Joshua Keating at the Foreign Policy blog notes that this is just one more step in Gaddafi’s evolution from a corrupt, authoritarian sponsor-of-terror into a corrupt, authoritarian non-sponsor-of-terror.
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