Back To The Future For Libya
January 3, 2008 at 9:56 am
A sad day for us cold warriors turned terror warriors.
From the Washington Post:
Abdel-Rahman Shalqam and his wife received a personal tour of the White House, an official escort on Capitol Hill and a luncheon with executives from Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Occidental Petroleum and Raytheon, as well as the U.S. trade representative’s office.
So began the official redemption of Libya yesterday, as the foreign minister of a country once equated with “barbarism” became that nation’s highest ranking official to visit Washington in 35 years.
You know, in the good old days of unmistakable bad guys and clear-cut bad guys, circa 1985, we battled the Libyans. We fought them on our home soil. And we were led by brave principled heroes like Marty McFly.
Goldie Wilson said,
January 3, 2008 @ 12:28 pm
And for those among you who are sharp-eyed you will note that this still shot comes from the end of the movie, after Marty has altered the course of future events, rather than from the beginning… soperhaps something he did in 1955 also altered the future course for the Libyans.