Tripoli, Libya- For months citizens of Libya have rebelled and tried with all their hearts and minds to overthrow the tyrannical dictatorship of Muammar al-Gaddafi and finally saw their dreams become reality.
Uh, what now?
However, with his death comes monumental changes in the country that has be ravished for years by spending billions of dollars of their oil money on: needless wars, purchasing arms and men to fight in these wars and finally, “just plain pissing it away,” said local man Al-Farouq Al-Mein Alphonso Alonzo Mourning Islam.
“I don’t have a damn clue what we’re going to do now he’s (Gaddafi) dead. Seriously, at least we knew what sort of crap we were in when he was running the country, now we just have to guess,” said Al-Farouq Al-Mein Alphonso Alonzo Mourning Islam.
In the sreets of Tripoli the sounds of gunfire, car horns and cheers were constantly being mistaken with celebration, when in fact it was all out chaos and confusion.
In Misrata a city nearly destroyed by attacks during the Libyan war, motorists slammed their horns and randomly came to screeching stops as confused citizens rushed in and out of traffic on busy sections of roadways.
On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama said to Libya, “You have won your revolution. Oh my sweet good God, what the hell is going to happen now?” He pledged American support and trillions of dollars to Libya’s reconstruction effort– as convoluted and misguided as it may be over the next century or so.
–James Dust–