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Though he recognizes that his position on Stalin is controversial, and he acknowledges that “many mistakes were made under Stalin’s leadership in the Soviet Union,” he never gets more specific on the nature of Stalin’s evil...
...While Gaddafi indicates that geopolitical shifts like the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Palestinian decision to negotiate with Israel and the increasing spread of Islamic extremism forced him to change course, he believes that it was his atomic bomb program that enabled him to deal with the West from a position of strength. Even today, he concedes nothing in Libya's support for terrorism, bragging about how revolutionaries he aided like Nelson Mandela and Yasser Arafat became welcome visitors to the White House. Libya's regret, he says, is that some of the groups committed the error of killing...
...toppling of Saddam and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan before that. In TIME interviews with key Libyan players, including three with Gaddafi going back before 9/11, it was clear that other important factors were also at work. Foremost among them was the collapse of the Soviet empire, which brought down Gaddafi's once-powerful friends in capitals like Moscow, Prague and Bucharest. Another important factor was the rise of Islamic fundamentalists in the Middle East, which resulted in extremist attacks in Libya and against Gaddafi personally...
...little was said about it wasn't good. He helped elevate the agency through careful cultivation of patrons on the Hill as well as selected reporters and writers. He even let in the occasional TV crew. He also shifted the agency's mission from monitoring spies from the former Soviet bloc to tracking terrorists. Two days after 9/11, he told his stricken staff, "Right now, a quarter of a billion Americans wish they had your job, to go after the enemy." When John Negroponte was named the first director of national intelligence (DNI) in 2005, Hayden was a natural choice...
...running a booming oil state, which earned around $113 billion from oil exports last year (and a further $30 billion from natural gas exports). Which is why rising global demand for oil created by economic growth may be bad news for Russian democracy activists, Western-inclined politicians in former Soviet states and a Bush Administration seeking Moscow's support on Iran...