Sirte – the Apotheosis of “Liberal Intervention”
by craig on August 26, 2011 10:14 am in
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There is no cause to doubt that, for whatever
reason, the support of the people of Sirte for
Gadaffi is genuine. That this means they deserve
to be pounded into submission is less obvious to
me. The disconnect between the UN mandate to
protect civilians while facilitating negotiation,
and NATO’s actual actions as the anti-Gadaffi
forces’ air force and special forces, is startling.
There is something so shocking in the Orwellian
doublespeak of NATO on this point that I am
severely dismayed. I suffer from that old
springing eternal of hope, and am therefore
always in a state of disappointment. I had hoped
that the general population in Europe is so
educated now that obvious outright lies would be
rejected. I even hoped some journalists would seek to expose lies.
I was wrong, wrong, wrong.
The “rebels” are actively hitting Sirte with
heavy artillery and Stalin’s organs; they are
transporting tanks openly to attack Sirte. Yet
any movement of tanks or artillery by the
population of Sirte brings immediate death from NATO air strike.
What exactly is the reason that Sirte’s defenders
are threatening civilians but the artillery of
their attackers – and the bombings themselves –
are not? Plainly this is a nonsense. People in
foreign ministries, NATO, the BBC and other media
are well aware that it is the starkest lie and
propaganda, to say the assault on Sirte is
protecting civilians. But does knowledge of the
truth prevent them from peddling a lie? No.
It is worth reminding everyone something never
mentioned, that
<http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2011/08/sirte-the-apotheosis-of-liberal-intervention/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/17/un-security-council-resolution>UNSCR
1973 which established the no fly zone and mandate to protect civilians had
“the aim of facilitating dialogue to lead to the
political reforms necessary to find a peaceful and sustainable solution;”
That is in Operative Para 2 of the Resolution
Plainly the people of Sirte hold a different view
to the “rebels” as to who should run the country.
NATO have in effect declared being in Gadaffi’s
political camp a capital offence. There is no way
the massive assault on Sirte is “facilitating
dialogue”. it is rather killing those who do not
hold the NATO approved opinion. That is the
actual truth. It is extremely plain.
I have no time for Gadaffi. I have actually met
him, and he really is nuts, and dangerous. There
were aspects of his rule in terms of social
development which were good, but much more that
was bad and tyrannical. But if NATO is attacking
him because he is a dictator, why is it not
attacking Dubai, Bahrain, Syria, Burma, Zimbabwe,
or Uzbekistan, to name a random selection of badly governed countries?
“Liberal intervention” does not exist. What we
have is the opposite; highly selective
neo-imperial wars aimed at ensuring politically
client control of key physical resources.
Wars kill people. Women and children are dying
now in Libya, whatever the sanitised media tells
you. The BBC have
<http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2011/08/sirte-the-apotheosis-of-liberal-intervention/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14675948>reported
it will take a decade to repair Libya’s
infrastructure from the damage of war. That in an
misunderestimation. Iraq is still decades away
from returning its utilities to their condition in 2000.
I strongly support the revolutions of the Arab
Spring. But NATO intervention does not bring
freedom, it brings destruction, degradation and
permanent enslavement to the neo-colonial yoke.
From now on, Libyans like us will be toiling to
enrich western bankers. That, apparently, is
worth to NATO the reduction of Sirte to rubble.
Over 200 African Leaders: NATO's Libyan War Part
Of Plan To Recolonize Continent
<http://www.globalresearch.ca>Global Research, August 25, 2011
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26200
A group of African intellectuals has written an
open letter criticising the NATO-led military
attacks on Libya, saying Africa ran the risk of being re-colonised.
"Nato has violated international law... they had
a regime change agenda," said one of the
signatories, University of Johannesburg head of politics, Chris Landsberg.
"The re-colonisation of Africa is becoming a real
threat," he told reporters in Johannesburg.
The letter was signed by more than 200 prominent
Africans, including ANC national executive member
Jesse Duarte, political analyst Willie Esterhuyse
of the University of Stellenbosch, former
intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils, lawyer
Christine Qunta, former deputy foreign affairs
minister Aziz Pahad, former minister in the
presidency Essop Pahad, Sam Moyo of the African
Institute for Agrarian Studies, former president
Thabo Mbeki's spokesperson Mukoni Ratshitanga, and poet Wally Serote.
Peace in Libya
"It is very difficult for us to see any peace in
Libya," said Serote, who also addressed the media.
"The problem has now been exacerbated...
eventually the African Union (AU) will still have to come into play."
He said even if criticism were true that the AU
was a weak organisation, then Africans needed to
find a way to support the body.
Landsberg said it was up to the Libyan people -
and not the United Nations Security Council - to
decide if their leader, Muammar Gaddafi, who had
been in power for 42 years, had overstayed his welcome.
The letter reads: "Contrary to the provisions of
the UN Charter, the UN Security Council
authorised and has permitted the destruction and
anarchy which has descended on the Libyan people.
At the end of it all, many Libyans will have died
and have been maimed (and) much infrastructure will have been destroyed."
The Security Council had not produced evidence to
prove that its authorisation of the use of force
was an appropriate response to the situation in Libya.
"Thus they (Security Council) have empowered
themselves openly to pursue the objective of
'regime change' and therefore the use of force
and all other means to overthrow the government
of Libya, which objectives are completely at
variance with the decisions of the UN Security
Council," reads the letter, which was also
supported by the Congress of SA Trade Unions, the
SA Communist Party and the Media Review Network.
The Security Council also "repudiated the rule of
international law" by ignoring the role of
legitimate regional institutions in solving conflict.
Rogue states
Landsberg said Britain, France and United States
"continue to act as a rogue states".
"A rogue is an errant state that does not live by
rules... the tragedy is that they are not likely
to be charged in the International Criminal Court."
Gaddafi's rule has been teetering on the brink of
collapse after months of Nato airstrikes causing
most of his forces to flee as rebel forces took
control of the capital this weekend.
President Jacob Zuma said earlier this week that
powerful nations had abused the UN resolution "to
further interests other than to protect civilians
and assist the Libyan people".
The future of Libya had to be determined by its people, Zuma said.
"Don't expect the AU to take up arms and fight," the president said on Tuesday.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26200
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