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17th September 2011, 11:44
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By Reason Wafawarova
When France launched Operation Odyssey Dawn five months ago, which was immediately to be joined by Britain and the United States, the zeal to implement an ill-secured UN Resolution 1973 was seen by many peace-loving people as brazen aggression targeted at Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, regardless of the mixed feelings about the man.
Resolution 1973 was supposedly about protecting Libyan civilians from what the West said was a "pending genocide," undoubtedly pending in the minds of Sarkozy, Cameron and Obama, but never as apparent in Libya itself.
Surprisingly, the propaganda line that Gaddafi was about to carry out a gruesome genocide in Benghazi was bought by the likes of Noam Chomsky even, a veteran who should know better about what comes from the lips of US presidents, especially when they are pronouncing a war. Before long, Operation Odyssey Dawn was unsurprisingly taken over by NATO, and what many regarded as crude aggression by two rogue states was elevated to an outright terror campaign.
With the help of NATO aerial firepower, the small group of Benghazi rebels began to gather courage and began capturing Libyan cities, coercing many civilians to join their cause or be shot dead; in fact killing as many as 50 000 they accused of either supporting Muammar Gaddafi or being his spies or mercenaries, especially the dark skinned citizens of Libya. The statistics are estimates from various independent sources.
the rebels entered and rampaged Tripoli, of course following in the footsteps of a devastating NATO team of murderous warplanes, the massive crowds that had earlier been seen turning out in their hundreds of thousands in support of Gaddafi, defiantly waving Libya's green flag; were all but intimidated into silence by NATO's indiscriminate terror bombings, strategically followed by a newly-assembled group of heavily armed rebels brandishing brand new high-tech military hardware fresh from American military warehouses. The rag tag rebels even masqueraded as trained soldiers in their brand new military fatigues.
Talk of rebels who know no war. It no longer mattered that the majority of the rebels were untrained activists who hardly knew how to handle a gun. The fact that these untrained and over-excited goons were coming under the cover of marauding NATO warplanes was good enough a threat to make the Gaddafi forces and their legion of supporters flee Tripoli's defence posts. Even Gaddafi's residence was left unguarded; and NATO grazed the compound to smithereens ahead of the rebels. It would have been foolhardy to stand against the high-tech bombs.
The rebels have had the temerity to brazenly demand the loyalty of people who clearly do not support their cause in Sirte, and we have Africans cheering as these innocent civilians are told to comply with NATO demands or be bombed to ashes. Other cities threatened with terror attacks include Zawiya and Bani Walid. This is so much for respecting the will of the Libyan people, as the rhetoric has been sounding from the cave mouth of Sarkozy.
From the start of this Western coordinated armed insurgence the rebels have been intimidating Libyans into supporting their cause, forcing people to surrender to their will, all the way until they managed to intimidate the people of Tripoli into submission, proceeding to do the same in all other cities where civilians had publicly vowed to fight the Western backed aggression.
Now NATO and the rebels are at the doorstep of Sirte, ready to commit a genocide bigger than what they said Gaddafi was about to carry out on Benghazi, the very pretext that allowed Western elite murderers to invite themselves into Libya. If it was Gaddafi at the doorstep of Benghazi, telling the people in the city to allow him to come in and arrest the leaders of the insurgence, there is no doubt the US, France and the UK would be bluntly opposed to such an eventuality arguing that "the will of the people of Libya must be respected."
Of course the will of the people of Sirte deserves no respect for its foolishness of opposing the Western position. But why is it that the will of the people of Sirte is not important to the murderous Westerners? Why is it that the people of Bani Walid and other cities to the South of Libya have no right to have their will respected? NATO bombs Tripolians to impose the will of Benghazi rebels and we are told that is victory for democracy. And the African Union watches like a kid robbed of his favorite toy by a tormenting bully.
NATO is ready to continue with its war crimes and terror attacks on the people of Libya and our eyes are supposed to be glued to the fiction of a monstrous Gaddafi whose grip on Libyans we are told had become so much of an unbearable hell, a hell that provided free health care, free education, free housing and interest free loans for the Libyan folk.
We hear the people of Libya want a new dispensation without Gaddafi and one would hope that the rebels would meet celebrating masses at the gates of Sirte, Tripoli and the other cities to the West and South of Libya. What we saw were marauding gun trotting goons and an entirely intimidated population. All we have seen are brutalizing NATO terror planes and a legion of Western armed thugs waiting to destroy the civilians of the cities of the so-called "Gaddafi loyalists," should they fail to denounce Gaddafi and support the Benghazi cause.
On the sidelines of the terror attacks on Libya we saw France holding a summit it dubbed the "Friends of Libya" conference. The sole purpose of this summit was to legitimize the so-called National Transitional Council and to give the false impression that the war in Libya is over and done with, that the rebels are the new authority in that country.
The hopelessly useless African Union temporarily woke up from its slumber and refused to be party to this sham conference, complaining that fighting had not ended, and that UN Resolution 1973 was about protecting civilians and not attacking them, as the case is with the situation in Sirte and other cities still controlled by supporters of Muammar Gaddafi. The AU argues that there should be a ceasefire to allow negotiations for a peaceful resolution of the crisis.
Jacob Zuma, Goodluck Jonathan and Gabon's Ali Bongo Ondimba are the triumvirate gang of traitors that first betrayed the African cause by rashly voting for Resolution 1973 without due consideration for possible ramifications, even ignoring the agreed position of the African Union.
Zuma tells us that he and his sleepy colleagues thought Resolution 1973 was about protecting Libyan civilians from pending Gaddafi attacks, not about NATO or Western powers joining one side of the conflict while disarming the other. Well, foolishness is no defense, much as it is clearly Zuma's trade mark.
South Africans are demanding an explanation and many Nigerians are not happy with Jonathan's choice of voting for war against Libya in their name. Bongo knows well how to silence dissent. He takes after his dad. We must however understand the doctrinal framework of Western elites tyrannizing Libyans today. To do so it is important that we attend to the thinking that lie behind the policy choices of the Western Coalition.
We may want to start by understanding Kennedy's Indochina war and its aftermath. Kennedy adopted doctrines already established; the very way Obama is adopting the same well established doctrines in the US tradition. One important aspect of these doctrines is the unacceptability of too much independence, often described as "radical nationalism" - something Gaddafi was seen as an addict to.
Gaddafi was seen as a buffer standing in the way of Western interests as targeted at the greater picture of Africa. His dramas at the EU-Africa summits held in recent years did not help matters.
He was always outstanding, whether it was in calling for the United States of Africa, calling for the unifying of the African currency, calling for the establishment of an independent African Bank, campaigning for the abandoning of the US dollar in oil trade, or stating that African leaders would always attend these EU Summits with the Western-hated Robert Mugabe, or else they would not attend altogether, a threat he promised Africa would carry out just before the 2007 Lisbon EU-Africa Summit.
Gaddafi became the proverbial "rotten apple" who enhanced the need to eliminate the "infection" before it spread. Just like Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam was eager to co-operate with the US and the West so was Muammar Gaddafi in the last decade of his reign; supposing the NATO terror attacks have successfully ousted the Libyan leader. Just like Ho, Gaddafi's cooperation did not meet the required terms of subordination. It is no easy walk playing puppet politics to the West. Agreeing to torture alleged terror suspects from Britain and the United States was not good enough in terms of pleasing Gaddafi's newly found friends from the West. Even granting generous oil contracts to the West was not good enough.
Top policy makers in the West still feared Libyan independence might fan anti-West Pan-Africanistic tendencies; undermining the close association between Sub-Saharan African countries and the "powers which have been long responsible for their welfare," to quote a Kennedy era US official in reference to the Indochina peoples.
In Indochina the responsible authority was France, whose tender loving care left the countries devastated and starving. Ironically it is again France's tender loving care for Libyan civilians that has today left the people of Libya devastated, intimidated, raped, and starved as supply lines are cut off to elicit compliance with the rebels and their Western masters - the brutal tactic being used on Sirte right now, as the leadership vow not to recognise the NTC.
The West's right to restore "a peaceful transition to democracy" in Libya is axiomatic. It follows that any problems and challenges that may arise can be attributed to the need to eliminate the alleged tyranny of Gaddafi. So the people of Sirte, Bani Walid or Tripoli can be bombed into submission in the name of eliminating Gaddafi's "tyrannical rule."
According to Western thinking, it is independent nationalism that causes friction, not imperial concerns. The traditional "strategic economic interests" of the industrialised countries must always prevail when independent nationalism interferes with the West's global plans. So it is the ambitious projects of Gaddafi that cause friction, not the West's greed for the resources of other nations, those of Libya included.
The African Union has unsuccessfully called for a negotiated diplomatic solution to the conflict in Libya, something the US, France and Britain have vehemently opposed. The only reason they are opposed to this proposal is they want to ensure that the outcome of this conflict produces a government that is pliant to Western powers.
It is exactly the same logic that makes Western leaders vow never to recognize any winner of Zimbabwean elections who is not Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC-T party - regardless of the fairness and freeness of the election. Libya has shown us who the actual terrorists in international affairs are. NATO is the biggest terrorist organization on earth today, with its partnering Al-Qaeda standing as a pea next to a mountain.
It is just as good that NATO and Al-Qaeda are operating side by side in Libya, like the Mafia Don and his runner. Africa we are one and together we shall overcome. It is homeland or death!!
By Reason Wafawarova
When France launched Operation Odyssey Dawn five months ago, which was immediately to be joined by Britain and the United States, the zeal to implement an ill-secured UN Resolution 1973 was seen by many peace-loving people as brazen aggression targeted at Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, regardless of the mixed feelings about the man.
Resolution 1973 was supposedly about protecting Libyan civilians from what the West said was a "pending genocide," undoubtedly pending in the minds of Sarkozy, Cameron and Obama, but never as apparent in Libya itself.
Surprisingly, the propaganda line that Gaddafi was about to carry out a gruesome genocide in Benghazi was bought by the likes of Noam Chomsky even, a veteran who should know better about what comes from the lips of US presidents, especially when they are pronouncing a war. Before long, Operation Odyssey Dawn was unsurprisingly taken over by NATO, and what many regarded as crude aggression by two rogue states was elevated to an outright terror campaign.
With the help of NATO aerial firepower, the small group of Benghazi rebels began to gather courage and began capturing Libyan cities, coercing many civilians to join their cause or be shot dead; in fact killing as many as 50 000 they accused of either supporting Muammar Gaddafi or being his spies or mercenaries, especially the dark skinned citizens of Libya. The statistics are estimates from various independent sources.
the rebels entered and rampaged Tripoli, of course following in the footsteps of a devastating NATO team of murderous warplanes, the massive crowds that had earlier been seen turning out in their hundreds of thousands in support of Gaddafi, defiantly waving Libya's green flag; were all but intimidated into silence by NATO's indiscriminate terror bombings, strategically followed by a newly-assembled group of heavily armed rebels brandishing brand new high-tech military hardware fresh from American military warehouses. The rag tag rebels even masqueraded as trained soldiers in their brand new military fatigues.
Talk of rebels who know no war. It no longer mattered that the majority of the rebels were untrained activists who hardly knew how to handle a gun. The fact that these untrained and over-excited goons were coming under the cover of marauding NATO warplanes was good enough a threat to make the Gaddafi forces and their legion of supporters flee Tripoli's defence posts. Even Gaddafi's residence was left unguarded; and NATO grazed the compound to smithereens ahead of the rebels. It would have been foolhardy to stand against the high-tech bombs.
The rebels have had the temerity to brazenly demand the loyalty of people who clearly do not support their cause in Sirte, and we have Africans cheering as these innocent civilians are told to comply with NATO demands or be bombed to ashes. Other cities threatened with terror attacks include Zawiya and Bani Walid. This is so much for respecting the will of the Libyan people, as the rhetoric has been sounding from the cave mouth of Sarkozy.
From the start of this Western coordinated armed insurgence the rebels have been intimidating Libyans into supporting their cause, forcing people to surrender to their will, all the way until they managed to intimidate the people of Tripoli into submission, proceeding to do the same in all other cities where civilians had publicly vowed to fight the Western backed aggression.
Now NATO and the rebels are at the doorstep of Sirte, ready to commit a genocide bigger than what they said Gaddafi was about to carry out on Benghazi, the very pretext that allowed Western elite murderers to invite themselves into Libya. If it was Gaddafi at the doorstep of Benghazi, telling the people in the city to allow him to come in and arrest the leaders of the insurgence, there is no doubt the US, France and the UK would be bluntly opposed to such an eventuality arguing that "the will of the people of Libya must be respected."
Of course the will of the people of Sirte deserves no respect for its foolishness of opposing the Western position. But why is it that the will of the people of Sirte is not important to the murderous Westerners? Why is it that the people of Bani Walid and other cities to the South of Libya have no right to have their will respected? NATO bombs Tripolians to impose the will of Benghazi rebels and we are told that is victory for democracy. And the African Union watches like a kid robbed of his favorite toy by a tormenting bully.
NATO is ready to continue with its war crimes and terror attacks on the people of Libya and our eyes are supposed to be glued to the fiction of a monstrous Gaddafi whose grip on Libyans we are told had become so much of an unbearable hell, a hell that provided free health care, free education, free housing and interest free loans for the Libyan folk.
We hear the people of Libya want a new dispensation without Gaddafi and one would hope that the rebels would meet celebrating masses at the gates of Sirte, Tripoli and the other cities to the West and South of Libya. What we saw were marauding gun trotting goons and an entirely intimidated population. All we have seen are brutalizing NATO terror planes and a legion of Western armed thugs waiting to destroy the civilians of the cities of the so-called "Gaddafi loyalists," should they fail to denounce Gaddafi and support the Benghazi cause.
On the sidelines of the terror attacks on Libya we saw France holding a summit it dubbed the "Friends of Libya" conference. The sole purpose of this summit was to legitimize the so-called National Transitional Council and to give the false impression that the war in Libya is over and done with, that the rebels are the new authority in that country.
The hopelessly useless African Union temporarily woke up from its slumber and refused to be party to this sham conference, complaining that fighting had not ended, and that UN Resolution 1973 was about protecting civilians and not attacking them, as the case is with the situation in Sirte and other cities still controlled by supporters of Muammar Gaddafi. The AU argues that there should be a ceasefire to allow negotiations for a peaceful resolution of the crisis.
Jacob Zuma, Goodluck Jonathan and Gabon's Ali Bongo Ondimba are the triumvirate gang of traitors that first betrayed the African cause by rashly voting for Resolution 1973 without due consideration for possible ramifications, even ignoring the agreed position of the African Union.
Zuma tells us that he and his sleepy colleagues thought Resolution 1973 was about protecting Libyan civilians from pending Gaddafi attacks, not about NATO or Western powers joining one side of the conflict while disarming the other. Well, foolishness is no defense, much as it is clearly Zuma's trade mark.
South Africans are demanding an explanation and many Nigerians are not happy with Jonathan's choice of voting for war against Libya in their name. Bongo knows well how to silence dissent. He takes after his dad. We must however understand the doctrinal framework of Western elites tyrannizing Libyans today. To do so it is important that we attend to the thinking that lie behind the policy choices of the Western Coalition.
We may want to start by understanding Kennedy's Indochina war and its aftermath. Kennedy adopted doctrines already established; the very way Obama is adopting the same well established doctrines in the US tradition. One important aspect of these doctrines is the unacceptability of too much independence, often described as "radical nationalism" - something Gaddafi was seen as an addict to.
Gaddafi was seen as a buffer standing in the way of Western interests as targeted at the greater picture of Africa. His dramas at the EU-Africa summits held in recent years did not help matters.
He was always outstanding, whether it was in calling for the United States of Africa, calling for the unifying of the African currency, calling for the establishment of an independent African Bank, campaigning for the abandoning of the US dollar in oil trade, or stating that African leaders would always attend these EU Summits with the Western-hated Robert Mugabe, or else they would not attend altogether, a threat he promised Africa would carry out just before the 2007 Lisbon EU-Africa Summit.
Gaddafi became the proverbial "rotten apple" who enhanced the need to eliminate the "infection" before it spread. Just like Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam was eager to co-operate with the US and the West so was Muammar Gaddafi in the last decade of his reign; supposing the NATO terror attacks have successfully ousted the Libyan leader. Just like Ho, Gaddafi's cooperation did not meet the required terms of subordination. It is no easy walk playing puppet politics to the West. Agreeing to torture alleged terror suspects from Britain and the United States was not good enough in terms of pleasing Gaddafi's newly found friends from the West. Even granting generous oil contracts to the West was not good enough.
Top policy makers in the West still feared Libyan independence might fan anti-West Pan-Africanistic tendencies; undermining the close association between Sub-Saharan African countries and the "powers which have been long responsible for their welfare," to quote a Kennedy era US official in reference to the Indochina peoples.
In Indochina the responsible authority was France, whose tender loving care left the countries devastated and starving. Ironically it is again France's tender loving care for Libyan civilians that has today left the people of Libya devastated, intimidated, raped, and starved as supply lines are cut off to elicit compliance with the rebels and their Western masters - the brutal tactic being used on Sirte right now, as the leadership vow not to recognise the NTC.
The West's right to restore "a peaceful transition to democracy" in Libya is axiomatic. It follows that any problems and challenges that may arise can be attributed to the need to eliminate the alleged tyranny of Gaddafi. So the people of Sirte, Bani Walid or Tripoli can be bombed into submission in the name of eliminating Gaddafi's "tyrannical rule."
According to Western thinking, it is independent nationalism that causes friction, not imperial concerns. The traditional "strategic economic interests" of the industrialised countries must always prevail when independent nationalism interferes with the West's global plans. So it is the ambitious projects of Gaddafi that cause friction, not the West's greed for the resources of other nations, those of Libya included.
The African Union has unsuccessfully called for a negotiated diplomatic solution to the conflict in Libya, something the US, France and Britain have vehemently opposed. The only reason they are opposed to this proposal is they want to ensure that the outcome of this conflict produces a government that is pliant to Western powers.
It is exactly the same logic that makes Western leaders vow never to recognize any winner of Zimbabwean elections who is not Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC-T party - regardless of the fairness and freeness of the election. Libya has shown us who the actual terrorists in international affairs are. NATO is the biggest terrorist organization on earth today, with its partnering Al-Qaeda standing as a pea next to a mountain.
It is just as good that NATO and Al-Qaeda are operating side by side in Libya, like the Mafia Don and his runner. Africa we are one and together we shall overcome. It is homeland or death!!