What next for the 'Mad Dog' of Libya?
By Jamal Elshayyal in
on February 21st, 2011.
2011 has already proven lie to the idea that the Arab world ever needed foreign
help in order to achieve democracy; and now it could prove false the notion
that the American administration and other Western governments ever cared about
human rights or self determination. Unfortunately, this will be done through
the massacring of hundreds if not thousands of innocent Libyans.
It has already become apparent that fear and apathy no longer cripple the Arab
world, the volcano that is the Middle East of today is no longer dormant, and
as it begins to erupt, those who foolishly continue to try and suppress it
eventually burn or melt away.
For decades, the Arab world has settled for corrupt, ignorant, treacherous
despots as their leaders. For a generation, and in some cases two, Arabs lived
in constant fear of expressing dissent, a fear so crippling it deemed them
useless, incompetent and ultimately irrelevant . But the region has now been
revived by its youth who have shown in Tunisia, Egypt and now Libya that they
know no fear, that they would rather die standing than live on their knees.
But still, like with Egypt, the West fails to see the inevitability of freedom,
America and Britain fail to understand that they can not continue to do
business with dictators and still say they are "friends of the people".
The European Union buys 79 per cent of Libya's oil. American companies and
expats have practically taken over parts of Libya in recent years as the "free
world" began to flirt with Gaddafi in the most scandalous of relationships. How
can Europe put pressure on the Libyan government (freezing personal assets of
Gaddafi for example) to immediately stop the butchering of innocent civilians
when 10 per cent of Europe's oil originates in Libya?
America and most of Western Europe have already taught us how the equation
works: Oil - Arab blood = Positive, Arab Blood - Oil = Negative.
In the past few days I have spoken to people in Benghazi, in Beyda, in Tripoli
and I've heard accounts of 60 innocent young men being gunned down in a police
station. People I've spoken to on the phone have since gone missing, picked up
by Libyan intelligence, their fate - only God knows.
Gaddafi's son, Saif, has threatened to kill hundreds of thousands of Libyans -
on TV. What was the reaction from "the free world"?
Despite the horrific barbarism used by Gaddafi to try and suppress his people,
Libyans remain steadfast, determined to realise their dream of living in a
democratic and free country. But they do this in spite of "the free world",
they do this despite the best efforts of Washington, London and Rome, all of
whom have and continue to prop up Gaddafi.
It amazes me why these governments fail to realise that we no longer live in a
world where oppression is okay. I am baffled as to how those working in the
State Department have yet to comprehend that the Middle East is no longer their
playground, the Arab people will no longer be subjected to the dictatorial rule
of puppet despots propped up by greedy, racist and corrupt regimes.
2011 is proving to be a turning point, a new beginning for the free people of
this region, from what I hear, see and know about the Arab people, they want
nothing more than to embark on this new beginning with their fellow free humans
in the West; its a shame that Western governments seem to be as opposed to
freedom and democracy as the despots who have ruled the Arab world for decades.
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