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The real reasons behind the United Nations’ Libya vote

by Open-Publishing - Saturday 19 March 2011
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A new war has been declared in the Middle East. With the bloody and failing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan still in place, the USA, Britain and France are now committed to an escalating armed intervention in Libya.

The decision to attack Libya and impose regime change – for that is what the UN resolution means – may have been authorised by the Security Council. But it was instigated by the despots of the Arab League, desperate to secure deeper western involvement in the region to save them from their own peoples. And it will be implemented by the same powers which have wreaked such mayhem throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds over the last ten years and longer.

The imposition of a “no-fly zone”, air attacks on Libyan defences and Gaddaffi’s troops, and naval bombardments will not bring peace to Libya nor a resolution to the conflict there.

They will, however, cost more civilian lives and they will set Britain and the world on an escalator of military intervention which risks ending up with an occupation of at least part of Libya.

While few people are admirers of the Gaadaffi regime, the experience of Iraq underlines the dangerous futility of trying to impose “regime change” from without. It also reminds us that genuine democracy and freedom cannot grow from aerial bombardment and foreign occupation.

Attacking Libya and sponsoring the Gulf oligarchies’ invasion of Bahrain to prop up the threatened monarchy there – under the noses of the US fifth fleet - are of a piece. They represent a concerted effort by the western powers to first control and then bring to a halt the Arab revolutions, leaving the essentials of imperial power in the Middle East in place.

David Cameron’s decision to place Britain in the vanguard of efforts to topple the Gaddafi regime is dictated by the same considerations which led Tony Blair and Gordon Brown to embrace that same regime – a desire to maintain BP’s profitable access to Libyan oil.

Stop the War believes that there should be no external military intervention in Libya. In supporting the Arab revolutions, we believe that these will be strangled, not supported, by western military action.

We call on the British government to keep its hands off the Middle East and demand that it refrain from all involvement in military action in Libya or elsewhere in the region. We urge the anti-war movement to campaign throughout the country to arrest and reverse this slide to war and British participation in it.

http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2306/1/

Forum posts

  • What is the difference between Bin Laden and Ghadaffi? We know were Ghadaffi is!

  • The difference is washed-down by mass cultural poverty spread by TV and falsified media ; in fact it is the difference between George Washington leading revolutionaries against British Crown and British Generals engaged in secret society such as The Freemason’s anti-revolutionaries to preserve the Crown and Royalists’ interests in the colonies ! You can say ’not much’ in fact for people interested in Base Ball, hamburgers and sex-shops and American way of life, not caring much for the world, and / or joining the US-British Band-Wagon for ’’war is good for U.S.A. economy’’ and Oil monopoly is even better for Wall Street !
    Gaadaffi was a simple army officer revolting against the Arab Crowns’ interests and against colonialists’ interest in Africa, and his government has created lots of better standard of living for most people in N. Africa, but has been corrupted by the monetary system run all over the world by The FED and the British supporting The Fictitious Capital, yes it is a corrupted monetary system for promoting mass poverty for billions and debt for most governments but produces few thousands of billionaires in the world for buying up all paper and electronic media and govern by corrupted "paper money" yes by paper and electronic money created by central regional Big banking interests monopolizing monetary system and energy policy that is wrecking the whole planet and has melted down the polar ice and is changing the shape of this planet through massive earthquakes, volcanic and tsunamies and greatest floods and other miseries not counting the war system and other corruption done by paper-money everyone runs after without spending time to think the basic corruption it engenders !
    I am not defending Kaadaffi , but i am against these wars thrown against most Arab countries : Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan (south and north or west in Darfour), Sumalie, N. Africa, West Africa and other places , or war preparations against Iran or other countries for oil supremacy and monetary corrupted system saved through permanent wars !
    There is a real alternative to this, Citizen’s credit System of values un-detached from persons diametrically opposed to banking corrupted system of creating debts in order to create anything !!! Abram

  • Nobody in their right mind supports foreign intervention, armed or otherwise. Being from the region, I know this at an instinctual, animal level even before I know it intellectually. But what I’d really like to know is how to practically and effectively and promptly stop Gaddafi and his vicious crew in the here and now. The "revolutionaries" started out as civilian demonstrators 17 February, who are turning into a ragtag army to confront Gaddafi’s onslaught. What’s the realistic alternative, anyone?