MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING – AT 9:52 P.M. ET:   An African delegation announces that the supreme high exalted divine leader of Libya has accepted an African solution to the fighting in the country.  From the way I read it, this has all the impact of a bill of sale found in a Cracker Jack box:

TRIPOLI, Libya – A delegation of African leaders said Sunday that their Libyan counterpart Moammar Qaddafi accepted their "road map" for a cease-fire with rebels, whom they will meet with Monday. They met hours after NATO airstrikes battered Qaddafi's tanks, helping Libyan rebels push back government troops that had been advancing quickly toward the opposition's eastern stronghold.

The terms of the African Union's road map were unclear -- such as whether it would require Qaddafi to pull his troops out of cities as rebels have demanded.

Some road map.  I think they need GPS.

"We have completed our mission with the brother leader, and the brother leader's delegation has accepted the road map as presented by us," said South African President Jacob Zuma. He traveled to Tripoli with the heads of Mali and Mauritania to meet with Qaddafi, whose more than 40-year rule has been threatened by the uprising that began nearly two months ago.

Would you listen to that lingo.  Would you just listen to it.  "The brother leader."  How about that?  As far as the head man in South Africa is concerned, he might mind his own country.  South Africa is a train wreck, with crime rates among the highest in the world, and government leaders with a strange affinity for dictators.  Of course, we don't hear much about it from the mainstream media, as criticism of post-apartheid South Africa is considered racist.   

"We will be proceeding tomorrow to meet the other party to talk to everybody and present a political solution," Zuma said. He called on NATO to end airstrikes to "give the cease-fire a chance."

Right.  Have NATO end its airstrikes.  Any requests for the Libyan government?  Apparently not.  And get this:

Qaddafi enjoys substantial support from countries of the AU, an organization that he chaired two years ago and helped transform using Libya's oil wealth. So it is not clear whether rebels would accept the AU as a fair broker.

I love it.  Here's the heart of the "third world," that hypocritical bunch of petty kingdoms, and they're supporting one of the world's greatest thugs.  What a choice thing to watch.

I don't get the feeling there's anything much here.

April 10, 2011