Someone who reblogged my last post about our collective responsibility in the Libyan situation claimed that it was only Europe trading with Gaddafi. As a European resident and taxpayer I am fully aware of the fact that the European Union has a very important degree of responsibility in the perpetuation of Libyan dictatorship.

However, just out of curiosity (and mostly because I wanted to see if I needed to correct my original post), I went to the US Census Bureau site to check the US Trade Balance with Libya. During 2010 alone, this balance turns to be 1.45 billion in favor of Libya.

So yeah, my original point stands: collective responsibility. Ours.

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