Baffling

This afternoon (23/2) some British news channels have started to admit that they've been able to get journalists into and high resolution video out of Benghazi in eastern Libya for the last three days. One of they things they've been showing is a small (approx 20 people) anti-Gaddafi protest that looked very much as if it had been posed for the camera. Amongst the protesters one man was carrying a sign which read, in English, "Free Libya" and next to him was a man carrying a sign, also in English, reading "Oil For the West."

This was such a strange sign for someone to be carrying at a demonstration I'm still trying to work out which one of two things was going through the man's mind. Either;

1. He thought he could get western support to overthrow Qaddafi by promising to sell Libya's oil to the west once Gaddafi was gone. What he probably didn't know is that Qaddafi was always going to sell oil to the west. The only argument is over to who exactly and how much they will be paying.

or

2. He knew all about the oil stuff and was holding up the sign to mock the anti-Gaddafi protesters.


So that guy is either a complete idiot or an absolute genius. I just can't decide which at the moment.