Libya : Let the Bloodletting Begin

The end game is being played out in Libya. Rebel troops sit and await the final push. Armed Libyan factions within the rebel alliance are waiting like panting hound dogs outside the city limits. They are determined, not only to rid the world of Gadhafi but all those within his tribe who benefited from his 42-year rule.

The cycle of violence continues as it has for over a thousand years. The victims become the victimizers, with the U.N., American, French, and British forces picking the winners and losers in the name of protecting the civilians, and promoting democracy and freedom -- Nothing could be further from the truth.

The vendettas in Libya have already begun. Government buildings in Tripoli have been looted. Poor black sub-Saharan African immigrant workers have been beaten and killed They have become targets of Libyan rebels because they fear that they're mercenaries in the employ of Qaddafi. Suspected Gadhafi loyalists or spies have been tortured and assassinated. These killings will get worse.

The National Transitional Council opposes the presence in Libya of U.N. military observers and police, despite widespread atrocities that are being reported. But just as Gadhafi preferred to do dirty work in secret, so will the new regime. It is an old truism, one that has played out repeatedly for over a thousand years in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, that yesterday’s victims rapidly become today’s victimizers.

The NATO air strikes on the city of Sirte expose the hypocrisy of the“humanitarian” intervention in Libya. Sirte is the last Gadhafi stronghold and the home to Gadhafi’s tribe. When this began six months ago,the United Nations Security Council resolution authorized “all necessary measures … to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack.” Now they have become become the very monster they claimed to want to defeat.

Obama has stepped in pile of shit and he knows it. It is obvious that the NATO bombings do not have anything to do with fulfilling the original objectives of UN Security Council resolutions 1970 and 1973. The mission is to assassinate Kadafi. NATO’s claims that it is protecting Libyan civilians are dubious and in fact the main cause of civilians being slaughtered there are NATO sorties, now nearly 20,000 with more than 8,000 bombing sites. NATO has no plans to stop the bombing until one of three events occur. Those three in order of NATO preference are: Gadhafi is killed, Gadhafi “surrenders” or Gadhafi flees Libya.

Preventing civilian casualties is longer a priority , if  it ever really was ?  And NATO is looking forward to the U.N. giving them another month extension, and expects no problem with an expected U.N. extension next month when NATO’s June renewal expires. That may be in large part because because NATO has reportedly been intensively lobbying the White House to bar Gadhafi’s government from the coming UN debate. The Libyan government, which is keeping statistics on NATO-caused civilian deaths, may not even be able to present its facts to the UN meeting next month. The reason is because Secretary of State Clinton has refused to grant Libya’s UN ambassador a visa. Instead Clinton plans to arrange at the last minute for the National Transitional Council to represent the views of those being bombed by NATO.