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Gadhafi could have learned from Hannibal who fled into exile
by Joseph Earnest October 22, 2011
Newscast Media HOUSTON, Texas --The interplay that took place between NATO and Gadhafi’s forces have a correlation to a similar event that occurred when both Rome and Carthage were military giants. Carthage was a sophisticated cosmopolitan naval power with generals possessing extraordinary brilliance especially from the Barca family, of which Hannibal was the most famous.
Hannibal's roots can be traced back to Cyrene Libya, where his father Hamilcar Barca was born. Being a Carthaginian military strategist of Libyan descent, Hannibal's military encounters have some similarities with Moammar Gadhafi's, who just like Hannibal was Libyan. It is no mistake that Gadhafi named one of his sons Hannibal Gadhafi after the man who is considered to be the greatest military strategist and tactician classical antiquity has ever known.
Gadhafi admired Hannibal enough to name his son after the general, yet he failed to learn the most important lesson of Hannibal's life. When it was apparent there was an opening allowing Hannibal to escape from the Romans (the West), he took that chance and fled into exile where he stayed for 19 years. As for Gadhafi, when it was apparent that he would be captured by NATO (the West) and there was still an opening for him to flee into exile like Hannibal did, Gadhafi went against his instincts and faced the most humiliating defeat a king of kings has ever faced in modern history.
Below is a three-part documentary about Hannibal's military engagements in the Punic Wars. The first Punic War was between (264 – 241 B.C.) while the second was between (200 – 133 B.C.).The documentary below is for educational and illustrative purposes, and is a testament to the military genius of Carthage's most prominent family of Libyan descent.
It should be noted that Hannibal in this movie is portrayed as fair skinned, but in reality he was dark skinned African, since the Moors, Berbers and Tuaregs occupied North Africa, long before the Turks (Byzantinians and Ottomans) invaded the continent. The BBC portrayal of Hannibal as a White man instead of the Black man he truly was, is to appeal to a wider commercial audience.
Hannibal Part I
Hannibal Part II
Hannibal Part III
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