A great day for Libya ... apparently a sad day for Canadians.

 This is from my posting on: Libya Gadhafi Capture, CBC, Oct 20,2011

A great day for Libya

... apparently a sad day for Canadians.

What's wrong with CBC readers? I scanned 150+ comments, and > 90% of them are negative. Even someone who simply said "good day for Libya" got scored only 259 for and 271 against. I don't get it. We live in a democracy, but you want to deny the Libyan people a chance at democracy (not a guarantee), just because you vilify NATO and Harper and everything they do? Get your head out of that emotional/ strait jacket.

While I know how much fun we have criticizing how Americans can be out of touch, the more I read comments on cbc the more I worry about how many Canadians seem out of touch with the world - both with what's going on and what other peoples and cultures actually think.

I do agree that it is a good idea to get your news from multiple sources. I find Al Jazeera does as good a job as BBC, sometimes better. Its always good to check a regional news source on any major story. But I would avoid sites or bloggers that have just one agenda to push - either left or right, status quo or conspiracist.

Finally, why do we have to be such pessimists? There's enough bad news in the world, why can't we just congratulate the Libyan people and leave it at that? This is their victory more than anyone else's, so it shouldn't be about politics and points. And if you think that Gadhafi wasn't much worse than Harper or some other such nonsense, you need to get out of the west and go visit Zimbabwe or Syria or somewhere else where the thugs that run the government can throw you away without a moments pretense about justice. I've been in former Yugoslavia during the wars there, so I know something about criminal regimes. I don't think you will find refugees from those kind of places mourning Gadhafi's demise.