Tag: imperialism
Posted on Thu Aug 25, 2011 at 09:49:54 AM EST
Tags: Humanitarian Intervention, imperialism, Libya, oil (all tags)
British special forces are on the ground in Libya helping to spearhead the hunt for Col Muammar Gaddafi, The Daily Telegraph can disclose."When rebels ransacked Moammar Gadhafi's compound and paraded gleefully with his military hats and golf cart in Tripoli this week, the scenes sparked memories of the looting of Baghdad in 2003. It was a reminder that Libya could plunge into the same post-war anarchy that terrorized Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein, when thousands of civilians were killed" is the opening paragraph of Geoffrey York's Globe and Mail article Wednesday afternoon.As a £1 million bounty was placed on Gaddafi's head, soldiers from 22 SAS Regiment began guiding rebel soldiers after being ordered in by David Cameron.
For the first time, defence sources have confirmed that the SAS has been in Libya for several weeks, and played a key role in coordinating the fall of Tripoli.
With the majority of the capital now in rebel hands, the SAS soldiers, who have been dressed in Arab civilian clothing and carrying the same weapons as the rebels, have been ordered to switch their focus to the search for Gaddafi, who has been on the run since his fortified headquarters was captured on Tuesday.
-- The Telegraph, August 25, 2011, Libya: SAS leads hunt for Gaddafi
But Ghahafi, or Gaddafi, or Quaddafi, or whatever his name is, is gone and Freedom and Democracy has been delivered to Libyans by western humanitarian bombers, without "boots on the ground" - except CIA spook boots that aren't really there, right? Hasn't it?
Well, almost, but things are never quite as clearcut and simple as they're made out to be.
York goes on to explain that, in order to assure that only true Humanitarian Brand(TM)Freedom and Democracy is delivered to Libyans, the coalition of opportunists, sorry I mean coalition of the willing, have decided that it ain't over until the Libyan population is pacified, I mean happy and secure with their newfound 'self-determination', and the only way to accomplish self-determination for them since they aren't really capable of self-determination themselves of course (but it sounded good when it was needed), is to is to send in the police to protect them from each other.
This is all part of the no-fly resolution of course - it's just the baggage that wouldn't fit in the luggage compartments of the bombers dropping freedom bombs - the fine print, as it were.
Call it "Mission Yet To Be Accomplished", for short.
(7 comments, 1957 words in story) There's More :: Permalink :: Comments
Posted on Sat Jul 28, 2007 at 02:01:28 PM EST
Tags: 2008 elections, Barack Obama, debate, Democrats, Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Imperialism, Iraq War, president, primaries (all tags)
Ira Chernus, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has written probably the most sobering article I've yet seen about the prospects for the Iraq occupation, and what can be expected from Democratic presidential candidates.
(11 comments, 2349 words in story) There's More :: Permalink :: Comments
