“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.” – George Orwell.
The bombing of Libya will begin on or nearly to the day, of the
eighth anniversary of the beginning of the destruction of Iraq, 19th
March, in Europe. Libya too will be destroyed – its schools, education
system, water, infrastructure, hospitals, municipal buildings. There
will be numerous “tragic mistakes”, “collateral damage”, mothers,
fathers, children, babies, grandparents, blind and deaf schools and on
and on. And the wonders of the Roman remains and earlier, largely
enduring and revered in all history’s turmoils as Iraq, the nation’s
history – and humanity’s, again as Iraq and Afghanistan, will be gone,
forever.
The infrastructure will be destroyed.
The embargo will remain in place, thus rebuilding will be impossible.
Britain, France and the US., will decide the country needs
“stabilising”, “help with reconstruction.” They will move in, secure
the oil installations and oil fields, the Libyan people will be an
incidental inconvenience and quickly become “the enemy”, “insurgents”,
be shot, imprisoned, tortured, abused – and a US friendly puppet
“government” will be installed.
The invaders will award their companies rebuilding contracts, the
money – likely taken from Libya’s frozen assets without accounting –
will vanish and the country will remain largely in ruins.
And the loudest cheerleaders for this, as Iraq, will be running
round TV and radio stations in London, Europe and the US, then
returning to their safe apartments and their UK/US/Europe paid tenures,
in the knowledge that no bombs will be dropping on them. Their
children will not be shaking uncontrollably and soiling themselves with
terror at the sound of approaching planes.
And this Libyan “Shock and Awe”? Shame on France, shame on Britain
and the US and a UN avowed: “… to save succeeding generations from the
scourge of war.” Every shattered body, every child maimed or blown to
bits, every widow, widower, orphan, will have their name of those
countries, and the UN., written in their blood in their place of death.
And the public of these murderous, marauding Western ram raiders,
will be told that we were bringing democracy, liberating Libya from a
tyrant, from the “new Hitler”, the “Butcher of Bengazi.”
The countries who have ganged together these last days to overthrow a
sovereign government have, again, arguably, conspired in Nuremberg’s: ”
… supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in
that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole”, and
yet again, plotted to overthrow a sovereign government, with a fig
leaf of “legality” from an arm twisted UN. We have seen it all before.
In time, it will emerge, who was stirring, bribing, de-stabilizing –
and likely few will be surprised at the findings. But by then, Libya
will be long broken and its people, fleeing, displaced, distraught.
When it comes to dealing with the usual “liberators”, be careful
what you wish for. In six months or so, most Libyans, whatever the
failings of the last forty years rule, will be ruing the day.
Dandelion Salad