Reply #110: That's an excellent 5th (or so) post, sir [View All]

[al bupp]

Many of those points, I've made myself, and I daresay others here have as well. Generally speaking, there seems to be a feeling among critics of the uprising that the powers that be, namely NATO, the "Banksters" (I do like that one, I must admit,) and others such as, say PNAC, or Imperialists in general are taken to be at once very devilish in their machinations and also amazingly incompetent.

In this way they can be said to both have understood that despite the upset to business as usual that the Arab Spring has had overall, and the Libyan uprising in particular, especially w/ respect to oil & gas interests, that these Machiavellian imperial powers figured it was well worth it in the long run having succeeded in removing a noisome loose cannon in Gaddafi, as well as have done so in such a bungling manner as to have in effect handed the country to al-Qaeda.

There's more to it, mostly tired rehashings of Cold War rationales and rivalries that largely and conveniently ignore anything so troubling as evidence or observation. I'm not saying it stands up to reason. In fact, it seems to be mostly an emotional response. This explains how carefully targeted bombing can be called carpet bombing, or (the unfortunate) wide-spread detention of dark-skinned people called genocide.

'Tis a pity, because the larger reality of what's happened and continues to happen in Libya and elsewhere in the Arab world, the toppling of tyrants and long-time dictators, ought to inspire instead.