Actually, Capping interest rates isn't a bad policy. A lot of problems people who take loans get into are from predatory lending. A very common source for such behavior comes from being able to set very high interest rates.
Of course if the cap is obscenely low, then it's likely loans won't be used for business building. It really depends on what the cap is to determine how it affects the economy.
Also, Islamic Law as a foundation sounds scarier than it really is. The real question is will it be a secular state like Turkey, a Blended state like Egypt, or a Theocratic state like Saudi Arabia. Given that Qaddafi was a blended sort, being a nut and adapting things so he could have more power, it's likely they will either go secular or theocratic, depending on who has the majority.
Them taking the foundation of Islamic Law was a given. Doing anything else causes a major regional conflict. Sub-Saharan nations could get away with taking a common law, but unless they want trouble with their neighbors they have to have the basis of their laws as Islamic. The major change from their current system might be the elimination of the Green Book. As long as they have a democracy though, they will eventually change the most nonsensical items of law they adopt. Every Islamic Nation that does tends to do so.
Despite popular opinion, I don't think it's the Muslim nature of the Middle East that spawns so many terrorists. I think it's the quantity of multi-decade dictators that reign in that area. Areas with a high ratio of dictators with a low rate of turnover seem to be the problem children of the world.
In fact, I just like depersonalized style of discussion, which was completely broken when some people started to speak for their countries.
Like... You?
Bravo, this is what I wanted to hear. The problem with your government is that they do not respect old good primum non nocere credo, and continue doing exactly same thing despite failing all the time.
As for hating Americans, see above.
You felt free to lump all of America in one big lump, while claiming all the crap you want. Sorry, but that doesn't fly. And no, your unnamed country is not listed in your private profile. I don't really care what you "Wanted" to hear. What you want doesn't matter a scrap to the world. It's about what you do. And what do you do? You bitch about America, complaining about us taking a role your nation failed to take. A role I and others here have informed you that wasn't the role America chose for itself. You don't have any better solution to the problem than letting the world fall apart. You sir, have nothing of value to add to any discussion about global policy. When you have something with more substance than bashing someone who is acting as part of a GLOBAL EFFORT, then your comments will be worth listening to.
You even failed to understand the ideology between the war of America and Japan. Yes other participants were involved, but you really have no clue how vicious and brutal it was. It was total war for either side, and without a drastic demonstration of a change of power, we were going to have to level every City in Japan as we fought foxhole to foxhole. How many civilian deaths do you think would have occured as we brought Artillery to the outskirts of Tokyo? Short of dropping Nuclear bombs, guess what it was going to take? They were sending untrained boys to crash airplanes into our ships. Do you have any idea of the kind of ideology it takes for a nation to deliberately train people to kill themselves for little gain? I'll give you a hint, When did Qaddafi surrender? By dropping two bombs that had never before been used in a battle, we demonstrated that the fight was a total futal effort, and that we could kill them ALL without a single further American death. This avoided another 2-3 years of war. You know how many people died when we took Okinawa? I'll give you a hint, The bomb we dropped on Nagasaki killed 39,000. Okinawa's CIVILIAN deaths were greater than that. And our NUCLEAR attacks weren't the ones that killed the most Civilians. In fact, the attacks that killed more civilians did not result in the surrender of Japan.
This is why people were telling you not to even talk about it, because you got no clue.
(Edit: Oops, Improperly quoted. Fixed.)
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