IMPERIALISM IN LIBYA

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On 28 August 2011, in the UK's top-selling Mail On Sunday, Peter Hitchens writes:



(We're cheering on a football crowd with AK-47s, who could be worse than Gaddafi )



1. "I loathe the Arab Spring...



"It looks to me pretty much like a football crowd armed with AK-47s and bazookas, with the added ingredient of Islamic militancy...



"I look at these wild characters in baseball caps and tracksuit bottoms blasting ammunition into the sky (often killing or injuring innocents far away, but they don’t care) and I am mainly thankful that they are a long way off."



2. "Egypt’s upheaval has already begun to go bad. Libya’s has been plastered with danger signs from the start...



3. "The libyan rebels' "victory would never have happened without Nato providing them with an air force, as it did for the equally suspect Kosovo Liberation Army in the early days of Blair."



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4. "The official pretext, that we are ‘intervening to protect civilians’, is lying hogwash and should be laughed at every time it is used.



"In the past few days - according to reliable reports - Libya’s rebels have been guilty of indiscriminate shooting into civilian areas and the brutal and arbitrary arrests of suspected opponents...



"The questions are these: Will what follows be better? Will the burned, bandaged bodies, the crammed morgues and the hospital wards full of stench, screams and groans have been worthwhile? Were we right to take sides?"



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On 26 August 2011, we read: 'NATO destroys yet another country' by M D Nalapat, Vice-Chair, Manipal Advanced Research Group, UNESCO Peace Chair & Professor of Geopolitics, Manipal University, Haryana State, India.



According to Nalapat:



1. Around 2003, Gaddafi made the mistake of dismantling his weapons program and working with the intelligence services of NATO.



2. Nicholas Sarkozy was told that Gaddafi might move Libyan money out of French banks and into China.



Sarkozy also learnt that Gaddafi wanted to spend less on buying French weapons and spend more on social services.



Libya had to be made an example of, lest other Arab governments think of shifting their money.



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3. These days, companies based within NATO are finding it difficult to retain the monopoly position they once enjoyed.



There is competition from China, India and South Korea.



So, NATO now uses military force to try to hold on to its privileges.



Oil companies such as ENI and Total want to grab Libya's oil.



The 'National Transitional Council' is a creation of Paris.



Libya was one of the more prosperous countries in the region.



Now, chaos descends in the form of armed gangs.



American Imperialism in the Philippines.



4. Unlike during the Vietnam war, when the Pentagon extensively sourced its procurement from Asia, the Bush-Cheney team sought to give US companies a monopoly.



The EU has banned Indian pharmaceuticals from its market, despite the low cost and high quality of medicines produced in India.



The EU has banned Samsung hi-tech products.



5. A time will come when Asia bans German cars and French defense equipment in retaliation.



Should China or India come up with better terms than Italian or French companies, the people of Libya will ensure that their government act in a way that protects their interests.



6. The use of military power for commercial advantage ought to have vanished when the 19th century did.



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