Predators at War: 'Drones next step to boots on Libya ground'

[The Northerner]

Run time: 02:23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzwN6EKC7GA   Posted on YouTube: April 23, 2011 By YouTube Member: RussiaToday Views on YouTube: 1138   Posted on DU: April 23, 2011 By DU Member: The Northerner Views on DU: 856

 
The U.S. is sending armed drones to target Gaddafi's forces, but Eric Stoner, the editor of the website http://wagingnonviolence.org/, says the move will only cause more innocent deaths. Asia Times correspondent Pepe Escobar told RT that Washington's initiative to send its drones is just another step along the path towards a U.S.-led ground operation.

[pscot]

1. This is just wrong.

We should not be doing this.

[The Northerner]

4. and US involvement in Libya was supposed to last for "days not weeks"

and more than a month later it still continues.

[emilyg]

2. kick

[The Northerner]

3. Thanks more need to know about this

[sabrina 1]

5. It's going to be just like Iraq.

They're doing it in a sneakier way this time, since their other two, or is it three, wars are not very popular but I am willing to bet that Libya is going to be occupied by foreign forces and that there will be military bases built there.

It is imperative for the Western powers now, aside from the oil, to place themselves in a strategic position in Libya so that Egypt and Tunisia now no longer likely to be ruled by friendly dictators doing the bidding of the US and their allies, aren't joined by Libya in their mission to change to a more democratic and independent region, free from Western influences. The Western powers are not going to give up their colonial ways easily.

I feel for the people of Libya. And they were so clear that they did not want this. As if what they want matters. Just like the Iraqi people.