the weirdness of Saif al-Qaddafi’s speech

Jon Leyne of the BBC calls it one of the weirdest. And keep in mind, he was in Cairo for Mubarak’s recent bizarro speeches:

“This was one of the strangest political speeches I have ever watched or listened to. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi blamed everyone from foreigners, exiles, drug addicts, Islamists and the media for the crisis. He offered almost unlimited concessions – but warned of civil war if the trouble continued. Then came the threat: His father Col Gaddafi would fight till the last man, the last woman, the last bullet.”

Yeah, it’s the drug addicts’ fault.

Leyne doesn’t mention the additional weird threat that if a civil war happened, Libya would slide back into colonial rule. Yes, I’ll bet the Italians are just licking their chops, waiting to swoop back in and take over.