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             US Attacks on Libya and the International Good Guy - 2011


Some very familiar, stale rhetoric coming from the mainstream media over the last several days regarding the US attacks on Libya.  It's hard to imagine that they really expect people to believe the same old story, over and over again, from one "tyrant" to the next ...  There must be a script for this somewhere.  The bad guy is eventually found cowering in some sewer or the like, having been amply warned to stop the "atrocities" ("campaign of violence" in this case)  as if there were no agenda other than stopping the evil-doers.  That line is tired.  Why not just divulge  some of the geopolitical details about what's really going on over there so that people watching the news in good faith won't be bored to tears?  Maybe that's the point.

For anyone interested in some (relatively) decent reporting on the US attacks on Libya, it can be found (http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/29/a_debate_on_us_military_intervention - http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=7339) .  Of course we have to go to the independent media to get it, not that indie media is immune from bad reporting.  And isn't it nice to see a debate where the participants are not allowed to slobber and talk all over one another?   Excerpts from the President's speech a few nights ago were included in one of these reports (Democracy Now) where he painted a very murderous picture of our foe, Gadhafi, naturally.  No doubt our foes are often very murderous - no argument there.  But what's far more instructive is why their "atrocities" often go ignored (and sometimes even supported) for so long ... before keen interest is suddenly taken and they make their way to the front page.   Why has there been so much activity in north Africa lately?  Egypt.  Somalia.  Tunisia.  Libya, not to mention Bahrain, Syria, Yemen, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.  You don't suppose this region is of key geopolitical significance?  No surprises then to hear these reports of covert CIA involvement in Libya, and how very much in control of the "resistance" the establishment is - as usual.

<>If you want to get rid of the "terrorists", stop stealing their stuff.  How would you feel about being called a "terrorist" for defending your homeland?  What's the old saying about repeating the same mistakes, over and over again?   I'm sure the few supporters of this intervention understand the debts we are all incurring to support it as well as the downward economic spiral (that is only just getting started) that is exacerbated further by such interventions.  I'm sure supporters have also taken a moral inventory of the needless loss of life resulting from these ongoing, "no end in sight" - "theater of wars" - bombing campaigns.  I'm sure they think the fact that we cannot even make the interest payments on our national debt is of no concern, nor is the fact that borderless, neoliberal elites (conservatives and liberals equally ...) are spearheading their global looting using our military and intelligence agencies at their whim.   I'm sure a few even think it's not their place to judge, and that one's civic duty may be fulfilled simply by voting.  But these few, still clinging to the lie of the international good guy, will increasingly break their silence as they continue getting bashed where it hurts most - in their pocketbooks. 


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