Bin Laden out, Gaddafi next by Pepe Escobar

[Jefferson23]

May 12, 2011

Let's start by invoking a Western cultural icon, Dante; "Abandon all hope ye who enter here" - because international law as we know it has just been delivered a stake through its heart. The "new" sociopolitical Darwinism entails humanitarian neo-colonialism, targeted assassinations - extrajudicial executions - and drone wars, all carried out in the name of a revamped white man's burden.

In the whirlwind of lies and hypocrisy engulfing the Osama bin Laden hit job, the key justice-related fact is how an unarmed man, codename "Geronimo", was captured live then summarily executed in front of one of his daughters - after a lightning-quick invasion of a theoretically "sovereign" country.
As for the quagmire war waged by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) against Libya, the fact is that Western public opinion was fed a military attack against a sovereign country that has committed no violation of the United Nations charter. Talk about a wolf - neo-colonialism - in sheep's clothing - "humanitarian war".

At the heart of the matter is the concept itself of international law - adopted by all "civilized" nations, as well as what constitutes a just war. Yet for Western ruling elites this is just a detail; there has been no high-level debate on the implications of an United Nations-justified NATO war whose ultimate - and always unstated - objective is regime change.

Tomahawk Darwinism:
The dirty operation in northern Africa reveals itself to be even nastier when it has been proved that the war on Libya was initially conceptualized by dubious French interests; that Saudi Arabia delivered a fake Arab League vote for the US because it wanted to get rid of Muammar Gaddafi and at the same time have a free hand in smashing pro-democracy protests in Bahrain; that Libya offers the perfect possibility for the Pentagon's Africom to have an African base; that a dodgy bunch of "rebels" hijacked legitimate protests, with Gaddafi defectors, al-Qaeda-linked jihadis and exiles such as Central Intelligence Agency asset General Khalifa Hifter, who had lived for nearly 20 years in Virginia, taking over.

in full: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ME12Ak01.html

[bemildred]

1. Let's just be honest, we are making it up as we go along.

Expediency and guessing about what to do next is the order of the day.

[Igel]

4. Only Nixon could go to China. n/t

[bemildred]

5. Right, Nixon was special. nt

[bhikkhu]

2. I'm sympathetic, but most of that is made up or exaggerated

It works fine when you're preaching to the choir and nobody does any fact-checking, and the audience is busy making up similar nasty narratives and passing them around amongst each other already...

...but at some point, why bother? The article should be in all-caps, for its emphatic character - do we learn anything by reading that?

[Jefferson23]

3. Pepe doesn't fact check, that's your claim? If so, state your facts

or your dump here is just that, a dump.

[bhikkhu]

6. So its a dump

Google the facts if you want them, but I don't think very many people here are interested in the facts.

[Gravel Democrat]

7. ^^^