Conley
08-03-2011, 06:56 PM
"Embattled Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi wants to hire a New York public-relations firm in a bid to improve his image, a pitch letter emailed to agencies indicates.
In the letter an official in Tripoli is said to have recently emailed to New York and London agencies, the leader wants a firm that will head daily news conferences and spread news on his "moral" and "legal" claims to power."
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/309885#ixzz1U0sBatrX
Crappy article cut off my copy-and-paste.
Anyhow, I'd imagine there are probably sanctions to prevent this sort of thing but it does show a certain mindfulness on Gaddafi's part, and I can't help but wonder if he just drew the short straw here. To be sure, he's guilty of criminal behavior, but whether that's more than the leadership of Egypt, Syria, or for that matter Saudi Arabia I don't think any of us can really measure. Were it not for the French recognizing the rebels out of the blue, would Libya even be a topic of discussion here? I don't mean to beat a dead horse but I think this engagement is a resounding indictment of just how awful Obama's foreign policy has been.
In the letter an official in Tripoli is said to have recently emailed to New York and London agencies, the leader wants a firm that will head daily news conferences and spread news on his "moral" and "legal" claims to power."
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/309885#ixzz1U0sBatrX
Crappy article cut off my copy-and-paste.
Anyhow, I'd imagine there are probably sanctions to prevent this sort of thing but it does show a certain mindfulness on Gaddafi's part, and I can't help but wonder if he just drew the short straw here. To be sure, he's guilty of criminal behavior, but whether that's more than the leadership of Egypt, Syria, or for that matter Saudi Arabia I don't think any of us can really measure. Were it not for the French recognizing the rebels out of the blue, would Libya even be a topic of discussion here? I don't mean to beat a dead horse but I think this engagement is a resounding indictment of just how awful Obama's foreign policy has been.