By Andrew L. Jaffee

I’m so glad that Muammar Gaddafi has made me see the light, realize that democracy is a lie, and understand that the Arab dictatorship is the ultimate form of representative government. From Reuters:

He touted Libya’s political system as superior to “farcical” and “fake” parliamentary and representative democracies in the West.”

“There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet,” Gaddafi said to the conference at Columbia University in New York.

Libya’s Jamahiriyah system, under which Libyans can air their views at “people’s congresses,” is genuine democracy, said Gaddafi, who spoke through a translator and was dressed in purple robes and seated at a desk in front of a map of Africa.

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s World Factbook describes Libya’s government as: “Jamahiriyah (a state of the masses) in theory, governed by the populace through local councils; in fact, a military dictatorship.”

Gaddafi said Libya’s new openness would not lead Libyans to covet what they do not have — on the contrary, he said, the rest of the world would soon be emulating Libya.

“Countries like the United States, India, China, the Russian Federation, are in bad need of this Jamahiriyah system,” he said. “This is a savior to them.”