NATO in the Libyan case reduces to a crowd being led by Britain and France, with very important support of the U.S. The once-North Atlantic Treaty Organization is revealed as a tawdry cover story, a shell, for Britain and France neo-colonialist freedom of action in Libya. David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy have their own reasons for mounting this anti-Gaddafi campaign. They view the Mediterranean as their lake and want it ringed by friendly and pliable governments.
The affair reminds one of the 1956 Suez situation except that the U.S. now sides with Britain and France. The real reasons for the anti-Gaddafi duo’s actions have not been revealed clearly to the world. They are hidden at present and may include French unhappiness with Gaddafi’s rejection of France in arms and nuclear deals. They are being covered up with the rhetoric and bombs of Cameron and Sarkozy and Obama. Just look at what these two-faced hypocrites are saying and doing in the case of Gaddafi that they have not said in the past about him and that they are not saying about other neighboring States or States elsewhere in the world. They declare his rule illegitimate. They call for him to resign and go. They recognize hastily the Interim National Transitional Council. They call for Gaddafi to go on trial. They provide air support for a collection of rebels of all sorts. They seek to impose a government structure of their own making on Libyans, while having the nerve to speak of their independence. They set up a new central bank in Bengazi so that oil can be sold, and the U.S. allows these sales outside of its sanctions. They turn Gaddafi from an ally to an enemy overnight, without batting an eye. They encourage Egypt to send arms.
Their intelligence services no doubt stirred up the pot and dispatched personnel to Libya for some months. The duo is managing the rebellion with the U.S. as an important general partner since the head of the NATO forces is an American. Here we have about as open a case of big country interference in another country as one can imagine analogous to American interferences south of its border. The Libyan affair reveals the U.N. Security Council as a footnote, as a political hypocrite and rubber stamp in which the other big players, Russia and China, look to their own interests while leaving Britain, France, and the U.S. to look after their sphere of influence, possibly weakening themselves in the process.
