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Ada dua pokok pandang perihal berita meninggalnya diktator Gaddafi, dipandang
dari sudut politis bisa dikatakan setiap diktator yang kemudian dalam kariernya
sudah habis waktu gunanya bagi pihak Barat akan dipercepat di habisi . Dilihat
seorang diktator sebagai , individu yang kurang mawas diri (apa ada ya
diktator yang mawas diri?) dan terlalu rakus harta dan lamanya diktator
nangkring akan membawa musibah bagi diri sendiri.
Contohnya banyak, yang kita alami sendiri Mbah Harto yang terlalu lama
nangkring dan rakusnya mboten ....mboten
Setelah perang dingin usai, mbah Harto yang dulunya didukung dan dipelihara
oleh imperialis US, tahun 1998 adalah se-olah2 sepertinya use-by-date-nya sudah
tiba, dari itu rakyat Indonesia di-"perbolehkan" oleh imperialis Barat untuk
menggulung Mbah Harto.
Kapan ya tiran2 di TimTeng terutama Saudi Arabia akan mengalami nasib,
menghadapi use-by-date-nya akan berachir? Negara ini masih bisa di-"pakai" oleh
imperialis Amerika selama tanah ini masih menghasilkan minyak. Padahal negara
ini adalah negara tirani yang paling kejam.Yemen sudah mulai mendekati
keruntuhan-nya ingin melepas diri dari cengkraman tiran Abdulah Saleh, kemudian
menyusul Syria dan mungkin Jordania..
Dari semua diktator yang ditumbangkan rupanya hanya Mbah Harto yang bisa
dibilang masih untung, Tapi bagaimanapun juga reputasinya, harga dirinya sudah
terpuruk sewaktu Mbah Harto di panggil oleh Pengadilan sebagai terdakwa dalam
hal korupsi. Mbah Harto adalah bak Tuhan, orang mau mati atau hidup adalah
keputusan-nya.
US and NATO murder Muammar Gaddafi
By Bill Van Auken
21 October 2011
The savage killing Thursday of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi served to
underscore the criminal character of the war that has been prosecuted by the US
and NATO over the past eight months.
The assassination follows NATO’s more than month-long siege of Sirte, the
Libyan coastal city that was Gaddafi’s hometown and a center of his support.
The assault on this city of 100,000 left virtually every building smashed, with
untold numbers of civilians dead, wounded and stricken by disease, as they were
deprived of food, water, medical care and other basic necessities.
Gaddafi was apparently traveling in a convoy of vehicles attempting to break
out of the siege after the last bastion of resistance had fallen to the
NATO-backed “rebels”. NATO warplanes attacked the convoy at 8:30 a.m. Thursday
morning, leaving a number of vehicles in flames and preventing it from moving
forward. Then the armed anti-Gaddafi militias moved in for the kill.
The death of Gaddafi appears to have been part of a larger massacre that has
reportedly claimed the lives of a number of his top aides, loyalist fighters
and his two sons, Mo’tassim and Saif al-Islam.
While details of the killings remain somewhat clouded, photographs and cell
phone videos released by the NATO-backed “rebels” clearly show a wounded
Gaddafi struggling with his captors and shouting as he is dragged onto the back
of a vehicle. His stripped and lifeless body is then shown, drenched in blood.
It seems clear that having first been wounded, perhaps in the NATO air strikes,
the former Libyan ruler was captured alive and then summarily executed. One
photograph shows him with a bullet hole in the head.
Gaddafi’s body was then taken west to the city of Misrata, where it was
reportedly dragged through the streets before being deposited in a mosque.
The fate of the body is politically significant in that it was seized by a
Misrata militia faction that is operating under its own command and has no
loyalty to the Benghazi-based National Transitional Council (NTC), which
Washington and NATO have anointed as the “sole legitimate representative” of
the Libyan people.
Thus this grisly event, which President Barack Obama hailed in the White House
Rose Garden Thursday as the advent of “a new and democratic Libya,” in reality
only exposes the regional and tribal fault lines that are setting the stage for
a protracted period of civil war.
Both the US and France claimed credit for their roles in the murder of Gaddafi.
The Pentagon asserted on Thursday that a US Predator drone had fired a Hellfire
missile at the ousted Libyan leader’s convoy, while France’s defense minister
said that French warplanes had bombed it.
The US and NATO had carried out repeated air strikes on Gaddafi’s compounds in
Tripoli and other homes where they suspected he was hiding since shortly after
the brutal air war against Libya was launched last March. One of these strikes
at the end of last April claimed the lives of his youngest son and three young
grandchildren.
Washington had deployed surveillance planes along with large numbers of drones
in an attempt to track down Gaddafi, while US, British and French intelligence
agents, special operations troops and military “contractors” operating on the
ground also participated in this manhunt.
Just two days before the murder of Gaddafi, US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton staged an unannounced visit to Tripoli on a heavily armed military
aircraft. While there, she issued a demand that Gaddafi be brought in “dead or
alive”.
As the Associated Press reported, Clinton declared “in unusually blunt terms
that the United States would like to see former dictator Muammar Gaddafi dead.
“‘We hope he can be captured or killed soon so that you don’t have to fear him
any longer’, Clinton told students and others at a town hall-style gathering in
the capital city.”
The AP went on to note: “Until now, the US has generally avoided saying that
Gaddafi should be killed.”
Yet in reality, Washington is pursuing an unconcealed policy of state murder.
In this case, it has openly advocated and provided every resource to facilitate
the killing of a head of state with whom the US government had established
close political and commercial relations over the course of the last eight
years.
The battered corpse of Gaddafi’s son Mo’tassim, who was also captured alive and
then executed, was put on display in Misrata. As recently as April 2009 he was
warmly welcomed to the US State Department by Hillary Clinton.
In his Rose Garden speech Thursday, Obama boasted of his administration having
“taken out” Al Qaeda leaders, sounding for the all world like a Mafia don,
minus the charm. Among his most recent victims are two US citizens, Anwar
Awlaki, the Arizona-born Yemeni-American Muslim cleric, last month and, two
weeks later, his 16-year-old son Abdulrahman, who was born in Denver. Both had
been placed on a “kill list” by a secret National Security Council subcommittee
and murdered with Hellfire missiles. Abdulrahman was blown to bits along with
his 17-year-old cousin and seven other friends as they ate dinner.
The killing of Gaddafi is the culmination of a criminal war that killed untold
numbers of Libyans and left most of the country in ruins. This operation was
launched on the pretext of protecting civilian lives, based on the trumped up
claim that Gaddafi was preparing to lay siege to the eastern city of Benghazi
to massacre his opponents. It has ended with NATO orchestrating a siege of
Sirte, where thousands have been killed and wounded in suppressing opposition
to the “rebels”.
>From the beginning, the entire operation has been directed at the
>re-colonization of North Africa and pursued on behalf of US, British, French,
>Italian and Dutch oil interests.
While over the past decade Gaddafi had curried favor with US, Britain, France
and other Western powers, striking oil deals, arms agreements and other pacts,
US imperialism and its counterparts in Europe continued to see his regime as an
impediment to their aims in the region.
Among the principal concerns in Washington, London and Paris were the
increasing Chinese and Russian economic interests in Libya and more generally
Africa as a whole. China had developed $6.6 billion in bilateral trade, mainly
in oil, while some 30,000 Chinese workers were employed in a wide range of
infrastructure projects. Russia, meanwhile, had developed extensive oil deals,
billions of dollars in arms sales and a $3 billion project to link Sirte and
Benghazi by rail. There were also discussions on providing the Russian navy
with a Mediterranean port near Benghazi.
Gaddafi had provoked the ire of the government of Nicolas Sarkozy in France
with his hostility to its scheme for creating a Mediterranean Union, aimed at
refurbishing French influence in the country’s former colonies and beyond.
Moreover, major US and Western European energy conglomerates increasingly
chafed at what they saw as tough contract terms demanded by the Gaddafi
government, as well as the threat that the Russian oil company Gazprom would be
given a big stake in the exploitation of the country’s reserves.
Combined with these economic and geo-strategic motives were political factors.
The turn by Gaddafi toward closer relations to the West had allowed Washington
and Paris to cultivate elements within his regime who were prepared to
collaborate in an imperialist takeover of the country. This includes figures
like Mustafa Abdul Jalil, Gaddafi’s former Justice Minister and now chairman of
the NATO-backed NTC and Mahmoud Jibril, the former economics official who is
chief of the NTC cabinet.
With the popular upheavals in Tunisia and Egypt—on Libya’s western and eastern
borders—the US and its NATO allies saw an opportunity to put into operation a
plan that had been developed over some time for regime change in Libya. With
agents on the ground, they moved to exploit and hijack anti-Gaddafi
demonstrations and foment an armed conflict.
To prepare for a direct imperialist takeover, they followed a well-worn path,
vilifying the country’s leader and promoting the idea that only outside
intervention could save innocent civilians from a looming massacre.
The supposed imminent destruction of Benghazi was utilized to win support for
imperialist war from a whole range of ex-lefts, liberals, academics and human
rights advocates, who lent their moral and intellectual weight to an exercise
in imperialist aggression and murder.
Figures like University of Michigan Middle Eastern history professor Juan Cole,
who had raised limited criticism of the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq,
became enthusiastic promoters of the “humanitarian” mission of the Pentagon and
NATO in Libya. Representative of an upper middle class social layer that has
become a new constituency for imperialism, they were utterly compromised,
politically and morally. They were untroubled by the lawlessness of the entire
enterprise and the mounting evidence of the murder and torture of immigrants
and black Libyans by the so-called rebels.
Their attempt to portray the regime change in Libya as a popular revolution
becomes more preposterous with each passing day. The unstable puppet regime
that is taking shape in Benghazi and Tripoli has been installed through
relentless and massive NATO bombing, murder and the wholesale violation of
international law.
Libya stands as a warning to the world. Any regime that gets in the way of US
interests, runs afoul of the major corporations or fails to do the bidding of
the NATO powers can be overthrown by military force, with its leaders murdered.
Already, the US media, which has staged a hideous celebration of the bloodbath
outside Sirte, is braying for NATO to repeat its Libyan intervention in Syria.
For her part, Clinton warned Pakistani leaders on Thursday that insufficient
support for the US-war in Afghanistan would mean that they would pay “a very
big price.”
There can be no doubt that future operations are on the way, with bigger wars
coming into focus, posing catastrophic consequences. The Obama administration
has already put Iran on notice that all options remain “on the table” in
relation to a fabricated plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in
Washington. And as the Libyan intervention was aimed in no small part at
countering Chinese and Russian influence both in the region and globally, so
China and Russia themselves are seen as future targets.
The bloody events in Libya, and the economic motives underlying them, are
providing a fresh lesson in the real character of imperialism. The crisis
gripping world capitalism is once again posing the threat of world war. The
working class can confront this threat only by mobilizing its independent
political strength and rearming itself with the program of world socialist
revolution to put an end to the profit system, which is the source of militarism
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