At the mercy of thieves...

If was a Libyan rebel I'd be cheering the cruise missiles heading for Tripoli perhaps as much as the poor Palestinians cheered on Saddam's scuds.

 But here's what I am saying: if I watch a thief breaking into your house, beating you up and stealing your stuff - and he then turns up at mine offering to help me stop another thief doing the same to me, I can know for sure that he is a thief - and he's also operating a protection racket, for which I am sure I will pay, probably quite soon, with the contents of my house. I may not be able to say it, because I am at the mercy of thieves. I would hope that my real friends down the road apiece would be circumspect in their praise for this thief or that, and that they would be working to overthrow all thieves, in every town. I really do hope the Libyans get freedom and democracy out of the western thieves. I hae ma douts. I'm against thieves.