Blog 14
Hauslohner, Abigail. "Running With the Rebels." Time Magazine (2011): n. pag. Web. 11 Apr 2011.
For my research about the recent political strife and revolutions in the Middle East, I explored the issue about the current events ravaging Libya. I read “Running With the Rebels” from Time Magazine by Abigail Hauslohner. This article is about the political situation in Libya. The article is an overview of the Civil War, more from the rebels point of view, and their reasons for striving towards independence from Muammar Qadaffi. This is similar to the show Firefly because each are from the point of view of the rebels themselves. The article speaks of the gunfights and battles that have taken place in the oil-refinery town of Benghazi, Libya. This is a critical situation for the U.S because Libya is a powerful enemy or friend in the Middle East and plays a big role in the relations the U.S has with the Islamic world. This has instigated limited U.S involvement in Libya via air strikes on Qadaffi's forces. This has been described as a full fledged civil war. It is clear to me that Qadaffi is crazy. He is power hungry and peculiar. Another example of rebels is in Star Wars. The rebels, led by Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Hans Solo, fight an epic epoch against the Emperor Palpitine and Darth Vader. They have many trials and tribulations during the three installations to the series.This is similar to the Mal and his crew versus the Alliance.
I think this analogy of the rebels being similar to those in Firefly is actually pretty good, considering that it is tanks and a full-fledged military fighting against a rag-tag band of rebels armed mostly with small arms and gun-mounted pickups. This seems sort of like the fight between the Alliance and the Independents, where the Independents seemed like they would be much more poorly equipped, being from the outer planets.
ReplyDeleteI would have to agree with your psychologic evaluation of Qadaffi. He does seem quite peculiar and definatelt loco. I also like the Star Wars reference and think it does fit in with what you were writing about.
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