World Fiddles While Libya Burns

The murderous tyrant Qaddafi is on a roll in Libya. Using tanks, artillery, and jet aircraft about common Libyans with only small arms and pickup trucks, he's gone on the offensive. A massive bloodbath is in the offing when he takes Benghazi.


Meanwhile, those great self-proclaimed lovers of democracy, freedom, and human rights, "the West," (i.e. the U.S. and its European lackeys, with the former English-speaking British colonies of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand thrown in) issue proclamations calling on Qaddafi to "stop, stop, you brute!" and to "resign, forthwith!" With the predictable result- the thug is emboldened by this lame display of weakness. If Qaddafi had half the military might of the U.S. and its allies, he would have conquered the world by now- or destroyed it.

Ironically, these selfish, phony nations claim one reason they're afraid to intervene, even slightly with a lame-o no-fly zone, is that someone might call them "Imperialists." You'd think they'd be used to that by now. Of course, fear of being called that name has never inhibited them from ACTUAL imperialist actions, like invading Iraq in 2003, to cite a recent example. All over the world, just in the past half century or so, the U.S. has overthrown governments it didn't like, started wars, and invaded countries with little or no inhibitions. The list of nations that have been victims of U.S. brutality is long. Haiti, Iran, El Salvador, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, the Congo, Nicaragua, Chile, the Dominican Republic, the Brazilian military coup of 1965, the slaughter of 800,000 "communists" in Indonesia, aiding and abetting mass murder in East Timor, the Greek military fascist coup, and many more. So fear of being seen as "imperialist" for JUST ONE TIME helping people fighting to overthrow a tyrant, has to be some kind of sick joke as an excuse.

And suddenly "international law" is a big impediment. Funny, that never stopped any imperialist power before. Again, invading Iraq was completely "illegal." For that matter, Israel's colonization of the remainder of Palestine, conquered in 1967, is completely illegal, as is well-known everywhere in the world outside the U.S., which supports it to the hilt.

The U.S. taxpayer has been bled for trillions of dollars for the military since 1945. Too bad it can't ever be used as a force for good.

For that matter, Egypt, the recipient of $35 billion and counting in U.S. military aid, could easily help their fellow arabs. The Egyptian people just overthrew their own dictator. They should understand.

And of course the oligarchs of China and Russia don't want foreign "interference." So "the west" cleverly tied its own hands by insisting that the UN Security Council, on which China and Russia hold veto power, must approve any military aid- even arms to the people of Libya to fight!

One vicious act of Qaddafi's might nip him slightly. He tried to assassinate the King of Saudi Arabia a few years ago. So the Saudis aren't particularly fond of him. As well as being the dominant power in the Gulf Cooperation Council (a club of Arabian Peninsula nations), they swing weight in the Arab League. (Qaddafi had the gall to just send a delegation to the League's latest meeting- they said they wouldn't let them in.)