As the latest attempt to provide an ex post facto explanation for the
imperialist attack on Libya, Ismael Hossein-Zadeh “Why Regime Change in
Libya?” breaks no new ground. Trawling Global Research and other
pro-Qaddafi websites, the author strings together tendentious arguments
made elsewhere.
Among them is an attempt to portray Qaddafi as a great anti-imperialist
leader resisting AFRICOM, the American bid to build military bases in
Africa. Hossein-Zadeh writes:
To the chagrin of US imperialism, Libya’s Gaddafi also refused to join
the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), designed to control valuable
resources in Africa, safeguard trade and investment markets in the
region, and contain or evict China from North Africa. “When the US
formed AFRICOM in 2007, some 49 countries signed on to the US military
charter for Africa but one country refused: Libya. Such a treacherous
act by Libya’s leader Moummar Qaddafi would only sow the seeds for a
future conflict down the road in 2011″ [5].
When you go to footnote 5, make sure you don’t click the URL because it
takes you to the article cited in footnote 4. You should also be aware
that all of the footnotes that follow 5 are bewilderingly numbered 3.
Frankly, it is difficult to figure out whom to blame for this mess.
Either Professor Hossein-Zadeh is too lazy to review his submission or
Cockburn and St. Clair lack the motivation to do their job as editors. I
still think that Counterpunch is worth supporting despite its
infuriatingly slipshod character.
full:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/was-libya-attacked-because-of-its-attitude-toward-africom/
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