Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Will Qaddafi use his WMD?

According to the Washington Post, there is a small "garage" in a remote location in the Libyan desert south of Sirte, Qaddafi's hometown. The garage contains about 10 tons of mustard gas in six large canisters. The stockpile was slated to be destroyed no later than May 2011 by the Libyan government. Then the NATO intervention happened. Needless to say, all bets are off on the poison chemicals. The question: Is Qaddafi crazy enough to go all Saddam Hussein on us and unleash his WMD against his own people? Probably not. But not because he has a conscience or a shred of morality. He possesses neither. Qaddafi won't use his WMD because doing so would hand Obama the perfect excuse for landing the Marines and the 82nd Airborne in Libya. Obama would likely get unanimous UN support since the use of chemical weapons would outrage the world. And once American boots are on the ground, Qaddafi is done. So, no, he won't do it. It's not rational. One caveat: Qaddafi is bat-shit crazy. Ergo, no one should dismiss the unthinkable.

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