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24 maart 2011 19:32 |
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Britain, the mastermind of this intervention, has expropriated the legitimate grievances of the Libyan people and crowned the People’s leadership CIA and Mi6 supported groups from Eastern Libya. Miscalculating and embarrassing themselves the whole way, the British have pulled the ever concerned and compassionate “International Community” into a ludicrously ill conceived intervention. The American distance that has been stressed and the opposing position of Germany are major signals that this is a French and British policy, not supported and endorsed by all. The top US military officials predict a war of attrition that is not worth fighting.
The question of why these Libyans are suffering is never answered. We are kept in the dark even as to who they are. All we know is that they are “a poorly defined group of mutually hostile and suspicious tribes and factions that have failed to coalesce, at least so far, into a meaningful military force.” (Freidman, 2011) Why these Libyan’s mean more than the ones that will be killed by bunker busters or starvation though sanctions is not addressed. What makes Libyan life so much more important than Pakistani, Palestinian, Iraqi, Yemeni, Afghani, Saudi or Bahraini life? Let alone the black Libyans getting lynched by their Arab brethren on the streets of Benghazi.
Libya has been a litmus test for the British left. Not even 10 years after Iraq and none of the lessons have been learnt. Very few who profess their anti-imperial credentials actually are. Halon’s razor states: “never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity”. At the very least, demean yourself as stupid if you professed anti-imperialism but supported the moral crusade against Gaddafi’s Libya. Yet, to label it naivety is just too easy. It is not naivety which implies innocence. Rather, it is complicity.
"The stirring of public opinion can bring down governments. We personally must be accomplices to the crimes that are committed in our name, since it is within our power to stop them. We have to take responsibility for this guilt which was dormant in us, inert, foreign and demean ourselves in order to bear it."
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