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NEWS > EVERYONE ELSE > TENSIONS IN LIBYA STRAIN FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN OBAMA AND GADDAFI
TENSIONS IN LIBYA STRAIN FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN OBAMA AND GADDAFI
February 24 2011
Washington, D.C. – Friendship, true friendship, is one of the enduring mysteries of the human experience. Unlike other relationships where there is a blood or sexual connection, an obvious gain to both parties, friendship has no apparent value. From a 
purely survival standpoint neither party gains advantage from friendship except in the most dire of circumstances, but of course that makes up a very small portion of any friendship. Friendship too isn’t something that we stumble into, it is something we actively seek and go to great lengths to protect.
Whatever reason friendship exists in human culture, and in other species, there is little doubt that it has proven to be advantageous, particularly in those dire circumstances and the expansion of culture. Still, that vast majority of people do not gain or keep friends for some advantage but rather as a result of some deep emotional drive, even in circumstances where sense and reason would seem to preclude such a relationship. Such has apparently been the case between tow markedly odd bedfellows, two world leaders now at the centre of a major global concern. While there was certainly no open hostility between Barack Obama and 
Muammar Gaddafi, few would have believed that the two men have become friends, deep friends apparently, a relationship that is now being strained in the face of the ongoing issues in the latter’s nation.
“He is someone I consider a friend. He knows he is a son of Africa. Regardless of his African belonging, he is of Arab Sudanese descent, or of Muslim descent. He is a man whose policy should be supported, and he should be assisted in implementing it in any way possible, since he is now leaning towards peace,” Gaddafi told al-Hayat. “I urge all peoples to give him this chance and to support this policy, because America is a country that, when its policy is bad – harms the world, and when it is good – it helps the world.”
That friendship which has apparently been driven by numerous clandestine fishing excursions and late night phone calls has been on hold since the crisis began in Libya last week.
“There has been no direct communication, official or otherwise, between President Obama and Colonel Gaddafi since the outbreak of this crisis. At this stage, there are no plans for any communication between the two men in any capacity. This situation is something that must end and as the President has stated repeatedly the violence must stop before any discussion can be had,” said one White House official. “The relationship between the United States and Libya has certainly improved in recent years and President Obama has continued that good natured partnership but at this stage there is little that can be done to support either Colonel Gaddafi or his regime. For any conversations of any kind to occur the violence against protestors must end.”
Libyan forces have reportedly been using tanks and anti-aircraft artillery against protestors, something Gaddafi apparently joked about using against the bass near Camp David.
“There is a very difficult position for Obama in particular. Despite some eccentricities the relationship between Libya and the rest of the world has been much improved in 
recent years. Obama has continued that tradition and, at least if Gaddafi is to be believed, they have actually forged a personal relationship. It’s a shame that these global politics have to come into the equation,” said Scrape TV American analyst Dave Davidson. “Unfortunately they do and with the way things have been going I think it’s unlikely that Obama will be willing to do anything to help his fried. To be fair they haven’t known each other all that long, but sometimes people just click. Maybe they will be able to re-up that friendship once Obama is out of office, that is of course assuming the people of Libya don’t go all Ceausescu on Muammar. That would pretty much put an end to things.”
Gaddafi has apparently made multiple calls to Obama’s Blackberry but to no avail.
Emil Uliya, International Correspondent
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