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Demeter

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7. The Middle East will suffer from our G-zero world

Tue May 1, 2012, 10:01 PM

May 2012

For all the handwringing at the time, Nato’s assault on Muammar Gaddafi came off pretty well. In the end, the allies pushed Libya’s megalomaniacal strongman from power without a single US or European casualty, and compared with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it didn’t cost very much, writes Ian Bremmer.

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TOO BAD GADDAFI PUT HIS FRANCS ON SARKOMA; TALK ABOUT A KNIFE IN THE BACK!

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