身为共产主义者的作家布莱希特在谈到前东德政权时曾有一句名言:人民失去了对政府的信任,政府决定解散人民,任命“另一批”人民。文章接着说,卡扎菲昨天晚上也决定这么做,在他空泛的改革承诺没有被反对他的广大民众接受后,卡扎菲向追随者们下达命令说:抓住这些老鼠。 / P0 y q0 z# k# ]8 L+ e
The communist writer Brecht famously said of the East German regime that "the people having lost the confidence of the government, the government has decided to dissolve the people, and to appoint another one"." `$ f& z) l! P F
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Col Gaddafi last night decided to follow suit. Like Presidents Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt before him, he made vague promises of reform but went much further in what was on offer if these promises were not accepted by the vast numbers ranged against him. : G5 L5 z. D9 J7 K' D- z $ K5 ?( I% z" \. X7 e7 ["Capture the rats," he ordered his followers. . f) `' Y$ p; v- B# k. p5 P8 r7 x0 j( s/ k; d$ K4 E$ ]
: o6 u) O- f! m/ o8 R, Y" H美国《华盛顿邮报》2月22日刊登了David Ignatius的一篇评论文章,作者在文中讲述了他亲身面对卡扎菲的一段经历。David Ignatius说,上世纪80年代初,他与其他几名记者应约去见卡扎菲,在被搜身好几次后,他们终于被引入了接见大厅,但首先露面的却是卡扎菲的保镖,此人挥舞着自动步枪冲入房间,他光着脚,留着一头乱发,即使按中东保镖的标准衡量样子也十分吓人。 - a/ l+ i8 Y) F( v( ]+ }* |, ]6 V% U1 t& |
David Ignatius继续写道:随后卡扎菲走了进来,他径直走到我面前,在距离笔者的面部大约一英尺远的距离停住了脚,用他那眼球凸出、布满血丝的眼睛盯着我,他随后用阿拉伯语向随从大声喊叫起什么,接着便飞一般地跑出了房间,此后再也没回来。David Ignatius和其他记者随后被告知,会见取消。% u. T9 P$ _( T( m
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Time to stand up to Libya's madman By David Ignatius ( u& F/ s7 C- R8 q ; ^3 ]7 s! }5 g$ uBEIRUT -- Watching Moammar Gaddafi's televised rant today -- in which he threatened, in effect, to turn himself into a suicide bomb and take his country down with him -- a reasonable person would conclude that the Libyan leader is a dangerous nut.- e* [$ s' a4 d; E i9 r
% G$ Y2 k3 _# n' a0 a' b+ Q2 |) YI can offer a shred of personal experience to support this view of the Libyan leader as an unstable and menacing person. In the early 1980s, I traveled to Tripoli with several other journalists hoping to interview Gaddafi. When the appointed date arrived, we were taken to a large hall, frisked several times and then made to wait for the "mercurial" leader, the euphemism reporters used in those days to describe the Libyan strongman.7 D' n" X3 o2 q7 n
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Then came Gaddafi. He marched straight toward me (was it the fact that I worked in those days for the Wall Street Journal?), stopped about a foot from my face and stared at me with bulging, bloodshot eyes. Then he shouted something in Arabic to his aides and bolted from the room, never to return. Sorry, no interview, his terrified aides told us./ b/ r7 ^; @ Q0 `% P3 D9 `* n, f
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It was one of the oddest encounters I've had as a journalist. Honestly, I thought at the time that Gaddafi was high on drugs. Those eyes were popping with unnatural intensity. And he had a self-dramatizing manner that was unusual, even for a Third World dictator. / [$ c' C( ~% J; g( u( z5 t. `1 q D4 U' `3 Y
Gaddafi's trademark vanity was evident in the "die as a martyr" speech that was broadcast yesterday -- with him wearing a dashing cape and headscarf as if standing on the ramparts of history.& v0 ?. t, V6 E) d" Z5 ^, d6 y
$ L5 B/ Z) Y+ J3 |Dressed up in his coats and caps and band-leader braided uniforms, Gaddafi always looks to me as if he's playing himself in the movies. He created a bizarre personal philosophy that every Libyan was supposed to learn. (I still have a copy of this "Green Book," as it was known, gathering dust in my basement.) He even created a weird Arabic neologism for his country, calling it a "jamahiriya," unique among nations.' r1 L3 _% W, T% z
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It's for the Libyan people to dump Gaddafi, and they are struggling to do so with extraordinary courage -- reportedly even standing up to fighter jets. As I write, the Obama administration has refrained from proposing sanctions or otherwise pulling the plug on a man whom Ronald Reagan called a "mad dog." h9 `; z! \* d! a+ r' L
: |# f/ l0 L: K, ?' @President Obama should recognize that this is a moral issue and find his voice. Yes, he has to worry about the U.S. diplomats remaining in Libya. But the Arab world is watching, and it will remember what Obama says and does. This is a clear case of right and wrong, and the United States and its allies should show they mean it when they describe Gaddafi's behavior as "unacceptable." % Z+ h: F; B( g7 \1 ?: E/ m3 R4 c0 L
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