Apologies and Libya

I want to apologize for leaving y'all standing in the rain without a even as much as a note from me, while the news were exploding with violence, doom and embarrassment, the latter for Mr.Romney. Those darn camera-phones!
But let´s not stray from the subject, which is my sincere apoplogy for not being there for you. On the first day of the muslim riots I unfortunately received an obscure Email suggesting that my poem about the dystopia to come was the sole cause of all the religious unrest in the muslim world. I immediately retreated to the security of my panic room, expecting a horde of raving and jabbering assassins to kick down my door any minute. After a few days in solitary confinement I finally received a message from my wife, saying that my poem didn´t cause any civil or religious but rather digestive unrest in some of my readers and also that we didn´t own any type of panic room and that what I was mistaking for a panic room really was our neighbour´s winecellar. This did explain the rather unusual supplies of the room, consisting mainly of wine, old brandy, ritz-crackers and quite a disturbing collection of pornography. Since I agreed not to mention the latter to his wife, my neighbour only ground his teeth after seeing the amounts of brandy and wine that I had consumed and refrained from calling the police.

So, Libya. Did any of you ever wonder how things went after the killing of the Colonel? One moment the news were filled with the civil war in Libya, then they killed the Colonel, and then? Zilch. Nothing. Nada. Not even one bit of news. Who's in charge now? What about the tribal rivalry? Who´s in control of the oil? What about the Colonel's family? I´m pretty sure they killed his sons, but whatever happened to his daughter? And, more importantly, what happened to all his money?
So, for the most part I was glad to get any type of news from Libya. Obviously, the people of Libya are far from happy, and not just because of that silly video. No, there has to be more to this attack on the embassy, since the authorities were not sure whether the attacks were related to the video or just an unrelated attack commemorating the attacks of 9/11, which in turn suggests an atmosphere of general hostility in the country. Which, of course, is not much of a surprise.
Another question that remains a mystery is the correct spelling of the Colonel´s name. Gaddafi was the first version I ever saw, back when Reagan decided to bomb Libya. The american media insisted that it was Ghaddafy, which looked distinctly more mysterious than the german version. Some german newspapers suggested that it really was Khaddafy, but that version never stuck. Then, with the arrival of Al Quaida it suddenly was Quaddafy, and even Al Quaddafy but the latter turned out to be a mistake by a drunken editor at the ------- Network(deleted at insistance of the editor). One Blogger from Athens insists up until today that everyone has got it wrong and that the Colonel wasn´t even a Libyan but a greek con-man named Stelios Kontos, but I will not perpetuate any such rumours by spreading them even further, so please do ignore that last bit.
Still, after that single bit of news about the dead diplomat it became quiet again and nothing else transpired from the desert lands. An american diplomat was brutally murdered, for crying out loud, and there isn´t even a hint of a reaction from the White House, apart from a few empty phrases? The US have bombed places for a lot less, Libya amongst them. Unfortunately it is virtually impossible to assess the situation in the country with the news focussing on the rest of the muslim world. Again I find myself writing down a lot of questions with no answers. But I never promised you any answers. I only set out to describe and maybe even celebrate the last days of the Western Liberal World, no more and no less, and this is exactly what you are getting. And if you still have any doubts about the dystopian character of the whole bloody mess, well, then you obviously haven´t been watching any news lately. Maybe you decided to spend some time in your panic room. Maybe you don´t have a panic room, but still decided to spend some time there by yourself.
Don´t worry about it. It´s ok.
I understand.