Kadafi

Libya's Muammar el Kadafi has been warned. The U.N. Security Council has told Libya to comply with U.S. and British attempts to try two Libyan intelligence operatives for the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Scotland that took 270 lives, as well as with French arrest warrants for four more in the 1989 bombing of a French airliner in Africa. The last time a tin pot dictator of a small nation thumbed his nose at the U.N. -- his name was Saddam Hussein -- the U.S. smart-bombed and dumb-bombed Baghdad.

When statesmen everywhere are talking peace, Libya's Muammar el Kadafi sent a message to the United Nations General Assembly in New York that called for Israel to be relocated in Europe. His rationale was that creation of Israel was "a revenge against Nazism" and the responsibility of Europeans. This is an old, oft-refuted argument. Mr. Kadafi, trying to attract attention, is odd-man-out of Arab politics, shadowed by the luster of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak who recognizes Israel and keeps peace with it. But what's wrong with the argument should not be forgotten:(1)