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| 2011-09-05 |
| h/t Gates of Vienna The winners of that "kinetic" thing in northern Africa (the Barack Obama administration swears it's not a war) - collectively described as Friends of Libya (FOL) - were all in a jolly mood as they gathered in Paris on Thursday, with no air-conditioning but potent odors of runny Brie and Roquefort, to gloat about their United Nations-sanctioned, North Atlantic Treaty Organization-implemented "operation" for regime change in Libya. Call it the FOL war; the R2P war (as in "responsibility to protect" Western plunder); the Air France war; the Total war; anyway, the FOL had a blast spinning their win. The Great Arab Liberator, neo-Napoleonic President Nicolas Sarkozy, gloated, "We have aligned with the Arab people in their aspiration for freedom." Bahrainis, Saudis, Yemenis, not to mention Tunisians and Egyptians, have every right to be puzzled. Sarko added, "Dozens of thousands of lives were spared thanks to the intervention." Even the "rebels" are spinning there are at least 50,000 dead, with NATO still hooked on a wild bombing spree. ...Securing the loot Hours before the Paris bash, French daily Liberation published on its website a letter written only 17 days after UN Resolution 1973. In the letter, the TNC ratifies an agreement ceding no less than 35% of Libya's total crude oil production to France in exchange of Sarko's "humanitarian" support. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 I doubt this one will fair much better. Just a thought. If one is a Jihadi intent on reaching Europe with equipment, new Libya is a great boon. |
| Posted by: gr(o)mgoru 2011-09-05 12:35 |
| #2 European arranged regime changes have a rather shoddy performance record on the continent of Africa as I recall. I doubt this one will fair much better. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-09-05 09:48 |
| #1 Or perhaps Africans see right through the FOL's agenda; the new Libyan status as a barely disguised Western colony; and the neo-Orwellian fable of humanitarian imperialism. Blood for oil, sure, but a 'western colony'? I think not! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2011-09-05 07:09 |