Like a rotten log rolled over, the government of Libya keeps offering new surprises, as the insects scurry to find new and safer positions. Now that the wonderfully named Moussa Koussa has "defected" to England, Col Gadhafi is said to rely more and more upon his sons, much like the late Saddam Hussein in Iraq. And, like Saddam, Gadhafi has a whole bunch of sons. Now two of them have offered a suggestion that for chutzpah exceeds anything that Saddam ever proposed: they'll shove the old man aside and themselves preside over Libya as it transitions to democracy.
Right! Call it a constitutional dictatorship: members of the family will take turns at repressing Libya. No doubt some of Gadafi's seven sons themselves have sons, and so on. They can keep passing the dictatorship down from generation to generation, all the while abiding by the new constitution. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
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