Gaddafi's Demise..

The persona of Muammar Gaddafi is dying. Its ironic when you compare him to the other leader who proclaimed his right to carry the Arab banner. Saddam Hussein would soon become a thing of the past. In some ways, so will Gaddafi even though he might be physically present for some more years to come. By giving up his plans to develop weapons of mass destruction, whatever teeth he had and Libya had, even they are gone. For a lot of time, Libya was considered to be a state which would stand up to the west....and in business language, that was their positioning statement. By become amiable to the West, Libya and Gaddafi have lost their reason to exist.

Lets look at Gaddafi's past. He came to power in a bloodless coup against King Idris in 1969 and thought that he was the next Gamal Abdel Nasser of the Arab world. In years to come, his achievements never reached the heights scaled by Nasser. Instead, Gaddafi became famous for authorising the bombings of Lockerbie and writing huge volumes of self aggrandization called Green Book( on the lines of Red Book written by Mao Zedong). He feels proud of coining a term called Jamahiriya( on the lines of Jumuhriya, which is rule by people), which essentially is rule by people's committees. His one reasonable achievement has been the formation of African Union. After being snubbed from Arab states, he turned to Africa and espoused the idea of United States of Africa. African Union is broadly formed around this idea.

Now all the sting, of whatever was left, of Gaddafi is gone. He will go into a quiet sunset after passing on the reins to one of his sons...Anyways, did anyone at any point of think that there would be some reason to remember Colonel Muammar Gaddafi?