THE LIBYAN CIVIL WAR
We watch our government stand by and watch the continuing atrocities committed against the Libyan people by the hideous thugs of the Gaddafi crime family and talk earnestly about the need for a UN resolution, in effect giving a veto on any action to the Chinese, the most reactionary, venal and mendacious member of a club not short of such members. This disgusting spectacle turns the stomach.
There are in fact very easy steps to take which do not require a UN resolution, firstly recognise the opposition in Benghazi as the legitimate government of Libya this would open the way to providing them with arms, including surface to air missiles as a defence against Gaddafi’s air force. However should the Arab League request a ‘no fly zone’ this should be enough to provide NATO with the legitimacy to act.
Will these things happen, sadly I doubt it, there will I suspect be more hand wringing and pious claptrap. Though I do note that the CIA hold that Gaddafi will stay in power. Given the track record of these people in accurately predicting world developments over the last three decades this perhaps gives some cause for the hope that the Libyan opposition will triumph.
As a complete aside and paddling in the parochial and tepid waters of the British political scene, it was worth the nausea it produced to watch a member of the so called ‘Stop the War Coalition’ on British TV oppose any form of meaningful intervention in Libya.* The problem of course is always the US and UK governments, what happens to the people of Libya, or for that matter the people of Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, is as nothing to the intellectual purity involved in being anti NATO and the US. These people are beyond contempt and I would happily leave them to their shallow applause and self righteous gibberish if it were not for the damage that they continually seek to wreak.
* http://www.channel4.com/programmes/10-oclock-live/4od
There are in fact very easy steps to take which do not require a UN resolution, firstly recognise the opposition in Benghazi as the legitimate government of Libya this would open the way to providing them with arms, including surface to air missiles as a defence against Gaddafi’s air force. However should the Arab League request a ‘no fly zone’ this should be enough to provide NATO with the legitimacy to act.
Will these things happen, sadly I doubt it, there will I suspect be more hand wringing and pious claptrap. Though I do note that the CIA hold that Gaddafi will stay in power. Given the track record of these people in accurately predicting world developments over the last three decades this perhaps gives some cause for the hope that the Libyan opposition will triumph.
As a complete aside and paddling in the parochial and tepid waters of the British political scene, it was worth the nausea it produced to watch a member of the so called ‘Stop the War Coalition’ on British TV oppose any form of meaningful intervention in Libya.* The problem of course is always the US and UK governments, what happens to the people of Libya, or for that matter the people of Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, is as nothing to the intellectual purity involved in being anti NATO and the US. These people are beyond contempt and I would happily leave them to their shallow applause and self righteous gibberish if it were not for the damage that they continually seek to wreak.
* http://www.channel4.com/programmes/10-oclock-live/4od
