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Llandaff
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02.09.2011 01:23:43
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Современность; Политек;
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А в ливийской армии её выдают при поступлении. Разница принципиальная?
Кстати, не только я заметил передергивание в статье, но и некоторые авторы комментариев к ней:
Jhereg 1 day ago
Excellent article. However I have one question. Can we really call these fighters "foreign mercenaries" imported for this fight? It seems to me that Gaddafi had a long-term policy of offering Taureg from Mali and Niger citizenship in return for military service...which is similar to the policy the US and other nations have.
So strictly speaking, especially in the case of the primary person being interviewed, he was an active-duty member of Gaddafi's forces prior to the revolution. Likewise, it doesn't sound like ANY of the "returning mercenaries" were people with Mali citizenship that were paid to enter Libya and fight the revolutionaries. It appears all of them were already legally living in Libya and were paid to join up.
I oppose Gaddafi vehemently and applaud the revolutionaries success in overthrowing an oppressive regime, but the author is really blurring the lines with his definition of 'mercenaries'. These guys sound like they were regular recruits who committed serious atrocities, but not mercenaries as we normally think of them (foreign soldiers for hire for a specific fight).
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Видимо, у некоторых заокеанских обывателей еще сохранились здравый смысл и остаточная сопротивляемость мозгопромывательной пропаганде.
Но сама пропаганда классическая: как само собой разумеющееся, уже самим подбором слов, внушается, будто "каддафисты" представляют собой нечто тёмное, противозаконное, аморальное и предосудительное. Хотя, заметим, еще год назад (когда Каддафи был "рукопожат" Западом), тот же автор наверняка не нашел бы неправильного в комплектовании ливийской армии.