| 03/20/2011 |
Dangers of "humanitarian intervention" Libya
So we will take all necessary measuresto protect civilians Libyans, right? Too bad we were not occurred 42 years ago. Or 41 years. Or ... well, you know the rest. And do not be fooled about what it really means the Security Council resolution. Once again, be the change of regime. And as in Iraq, to \u200b\u200buse one of the only memorable phrase Tom Friedman at the time, "when the late dictator is gone, who knows what kind of bats come out of the box?
And after Tunisia and Egypt, had to be Libya, right? The North African Arab demand freedom, democracy, no more oppression. Yes, that's what we have in common. But another thing that those nations have in common is that we we in the West, who feed their dictatorships decade after decade. The French huddled Ben Ali Mubarak Snuggle Americans and Italians Qaddafi clothed until our glorious leader was to rise from the political dead. Would
why, I wonder, that we had not heard of Lord Blair of Isfahan recently? Without a doubt should have been there, clapping with glee at a new humanitarian intervention. Maybe just taking a break between innings. Or perhaps, as the dragons The Fairy Queen of Spenser, is vomiting in silence Catholic pamphlets with all the enthusiasm of a Qaddafi in full swing.
Let's open the curtain just a little and look at the darkness behind. Yes, Gadhafi is an absolute lunatic, a lunatic level Ahmadinejad of Iran or Israel's Lieberman, who once, incidentally, started bragging that Mubarak could
go to hell, but he began to tremble with fear when Mubarak was actually released in that direction. And there is a racist element in this.
Middle East seems to produce these characters ... as opposed to Europe, which in the last 100 years only Berlusconi has occurred, Mussolini, Stalin and the little guy who was a corporal in the infantry regiment Bavarian reserve of 16 flat and lost the brain when he was elected chancellor in 1933 ... but now we're going to cleanse the Middle East and we can forget our own colonial past in this sandbox. And why not, when people said Gaddafi in Benghazi, "we will Zenga, Zenga (alley by alley), house by house, room by room." It is certainly a humanitarian intervention really, veritas is a good idea. After all, there is no ground troops
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course, if this revolution was suppressed with violence in, say, Mauritania, requires, I think no-fly zones. Neither Ivory Coast, an afterthought. Or any other place in Africa that had no deposits of oil, gas or minerals or unimportant in our protection of Israel, which is the real reason that Egypt we care so much.
enumerate some things that could go wrong, let's look askance at those bats that nest in the glowing still and humid inside the box. Suppose that clings Gaddafi in Tripoli and the British, French and Americans destroy their planes, flying his airports, assault their armored vehicle batteries and missiles and he just does not disappear. On Thursday I watched just before the UN vote, the Pentagon began to enlighten the reporters about the dangers of the whole operation, adding that it could take days to install an air exclusion zone.
Then there is the truculence and villainy Gaddafi himself. We saw on Friday, when his foreign minister announced a ceasefire and an end to all military operations
, knowing full well, of course, that a NATO force committed to regime change and not accept that Gaddafi allow presented as an Arab leader to peace-loving victim of Western aggression: Omar Mukhtar lives again.
What if I just do not come in time, if tanks are moving Gaddafi? Then send mercenaries to help the rebels
. "We settled temporarily in Benghazi, with directors, NGOs and the diplomatic wording used? Notice how, at this critical time, let alone taking the tribes of Libya, that we invoke seasoned warrior people with enthusiasm for a couple of weeks. Now we talk about the need to protect the people of Libya
, and without registering Senoussi, the most powerful group Benghazi tribal families, whose men have been spared much of the fighting. King Idris was overthrown by Gaddafi in 1969, was Senoussi.
rebel flag red, white and green, the old pre-revolutionary flag of Libya, is in fact Idris flag, a flag Senoussi.
Now suppose that the rebels arrive in Tripoli (the key point of the whole exercise, is not it?): Welcome there? Yes, there were protests in the capital, but many of those brave protesters came from Benghazi. What will the supporters of Qaddafi? Does
disintegrate? Will they suddenly realized that he always hated Gaddafi himself and join the revolution? Or continue the civil war?
What if the rebels come in Tripoliand decide that Gaddafi and his demented son Saif al-Islam should get their due, along with his thugs? Will we close our eyes to the massacres of retaliation, a public hanging, to treatment as criminals Gaddafi inflicted for so many years? I wonder. Libya is not Egypt. Again, Gaddafi is a crackpot and, given his strange performance with its Green Paper on the balcony of his house bombed, it is likely that when also occasionally gets angry.
is also the danger that things go wrong
on our side: the bombs falling on civilians, the NATO aircraft that can be shot down or crashed in the territory of Gaddafi, the sudden suspicion among
rebels/
the Libyan people/ demonstrators for democracy that Western aid has, after all, ulterior purposes. And then there's a boring universal rule in all this: in the second when weapons are used against another government, for good reason you have, things start to break loose. After all, the same rebel
the morning of Thursday expressed their anger at the indifference of Paris waving French flags on the night of that day in Benghazi. Viva America! Until ...
know the old arguments. However bad it has been our past behavior, what should we do now? It's a little late to ask that. We loved when Gaddafi came to power in 1969 and then, when shown to be a lunatic, we hate, then love him again, I speak of when Lord Blair shook hands and now we hate it again. Did Arafat did not have a similar history of ups and downs for the Israelis and Americans? First was a super-terrorist who longed to destroy Israel, then a superestadista who shook hands with Yitzhak Rabin, and then again became a super terrorist when he realized that he had been misled about the future of Palestine
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thing we can do is locate the Qaddafi and Saddam's future that we nurture today, future demented sadistic torture chamber they cultivate their young vampires with our financial assistance. In Uzbekistan, for example. In Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Chechnya and the like. Men who have to deal with, which will sell us oil, buy weapons and keep us at bay
Muslim terrorists.
Everything is so well known that annoys. And now we're back at it, punching on the desktop in spiritual unity. We have many options unless you want to watch another Srebrenica, right? But wait: did not happen that long after
imposed our no-fly zone in Bosnia?
© The Independent
Translation: Jorge Anaya
Source: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2011/03/19/index.php?section=opinion&article = RCR 005a1pol
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