Comments on: UPDATED: In Libya & Loving It (The Massacre That Never Was)

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 16 May 2011 12:43:41 +0000

The West would be condemned no matter what. We cannot win.

Ilana, I am reading R W Johnson’s ‘South Africa’s Brave New World’. It is so depressing that I am frightened to read ‘Into the cannibal’s pot’. But I will, even if I have to order it from America.

By: CompassionateFascist

CompassionateFascist — Sun, 15 May 2011 04:33:56 +0000

Also, Ilana mis-spelled “Fascist”.

By: CompassionateFascist

CompassionateFascist — Sun, 15 May 2011 04:23:35 +0000

Latest score: Zero, 2. Zionist neocons: 0.

By: Nebojsa Malic

Nebojsa Malic — Sat, 14 May 2011 16:01:54 +0000

Even if Gadhafi actually intended to massacre Benghazi (he only threatened “no mercy” after the NATO bombing began), how would this be different than the Saudis massacring Bahreini demonstrators, or the Syrians massacring theirs? And how is any of this U.S. business (apart from Washington having organized the Syrian and Libyan rebellions, but not the Bahraini one)?

By: My RON PAUL i

My RON PAUL i — Sat, 14 May 2011 12:32:19 +0000

Ilana – AMEN to your response to Compassionate Fascist. Keep in mind the 4 million lives lost (plus wounded, post-traumatic stress disorders, widowed/orphaned, crops ruined…) when America tried to prevent the North Vietnamese communists from killing 200,000 South Vietnamese. We have no idea how this Libyan mess that we stirred up will now end but (as in Vietnam), the cure might easily be worse than the disease.

By: CompassionateFascist

CompassionateFascist — Fri, 13 May 2011 22:37:16 +0000

Tiresome nihilism. Zero’s last minute intervention prevented Khaddafi from massacring half the population of Benghazi; and, though its gone down the collective memory hole, this is the same K. who murdered hundreds of other peoples’ children when he ordered up the Lockerbie bomb. Frustrating, isn’t it? First Zero aces Khaddafi, then takes out Bin Laden as well. Lucky for us the election is still a long way off.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Fri, 13 May 2011 18:19:34 +0000

“who may turn out to later fink out on “us”” There is no “may”. If honest, he has to go with what is right and we all know that the US foreign policy is such that he will have to bail on us in order to protect his people. If he is a crook, then it’s only ‘birds of a feather’ and natural for him to fink. If he doesn’t follow either course, the Libyans will get burned anyway. There aren’t any winners in this game; anymore than in Tunisia and Egypt.

By: james huggins

james huggins — Fri, 13 May 2011 12:28:13 +0000

After Libya Luxemberg is next.

By: My RON PAUL i

My RON PAUL i — Fri, 13 May 2011 10:47:57 +0000

I have contempt for Gaddafi BUT ….

NATO is a vigilante posse of statist dictators who consider themselves personally entitled to indebt their citizens and use armies at their own whim. Assassinations, bombings, “collateral damage”, bribes, and a micromanagerial foreign policy are the byproducts.

More nausea-inducing passages from the BBC link:

“A delegation from the Libyan Transitional National Council (TNC), including senior leader Mahmoud Gibril, will meet National Security Adviser Tom Donilon and members of the US Congress.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday invited the TNC to set up an office in Britain.

After meeting TNC leaders in London, Mr Cameron praised the group and described them as “Britain’s primary partner” in Libya.

At a news conference, rebel leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil reiterated calls for the UK to provide them with weapons.
‘We need light weapons, which is not equivalent to Gaddafi’s weaponry, but perhaps with courage, which Libyan people have, there may be some kind of balance’”

e.g. the US and the UK are setting up their new puppet (Diem, Karzai, Jalil) who may turn out to later fink out on “us” Bin-Laden style.

http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/24198