There's been a lot of talk amongst the Third Worldist anti-imperialist types about the US wanting to intervene in Libya possibly through the UN and that they're engineering this uprising. This is silliness. Yes of course the US doesn't care about human rights they care about the oil and is no doubt trying to interfere in events, but that's why they support the Qathafi regime and are very unhappy that a popular uprising is now in control of much of the country. In Hasan Nasrallah's speech on the Egyptian uprising a couple of weeks ago there was a good part where he said what the US cares about is its and Israel's interests and not who is in power and couldn't care less what their ideological rhetoric is, they only care about whether they will go along with the US/Israeli agenda in the region or not. Likewise the US and its "partners" don't give a damn about Qathafi's rhetoric so long as he allows Western oil corporations access to Libya's oil, which he does. The reason why they're reacting far more aggressively to this uprising than Egypt's despite Libya being a less important country is that they're feeling imminently threatened by what's happening in Libya because unlike Egypt the Libyans are actually overthrowing their regime and could potentially replace it with something the US can't control. This is totally different from Egypt where the only substantial achievement is forcing the resignation of Mubarak (and that is a real achievement) but the regime itself is still very much intact for the time being with the Military Council ruling the country. These claims that the US stands to benefit from or has in any way orchestrated the unrest in Libya are just silly and quite sinister.
I don't know if Libya was responsible for Lockerbie or not and I really don't care. Even if it were true it would be miniscule compared to all of Qathafi's other crimes. Qathafi has already massacred thousands of his own people and he expelled 30,000 Palestinians from Libya in 1995, anyone who expels and/or abuses the Palestinians deserves to be overthrown as far as I'm concerned. The UK media is only peddling these stories about Lockerbie again because the UK government (and the governments of the US and EU) are trying to convince everyone that they have just discovered now that Qathafi is a criminal dictator and didn't realise before. They never seriously criticised Qathafi for the last 10 years ever since the Clinton-Blair initiative to turn him into an ally especially since 2003 when he overtly joined the US-backed tyrants club.
Contrary to what some naive leftists seem to believe Qathafi was never part of the pan-Arab movement nor did he try to unite Africa against Western imperialism other than dishing out a load of stupid narcissistic sloganeerings. The US is really taken aback by events and has little influence, their "experts" on the Middle East nowadays are completely clueless, just look at Jeffrey Feltman lately. There's no evidence of CIA fronts leading the revolutionaries. Although we should be vigilant also remember that the US/Israel often encourages propaganda stories of it being behind uprisings against regimes they support to give Arabs an exaggerated impression of US power in the region to make them feel defeatist and that Arabs can never influence their own destinies. Ever noticed how whenever something inspiring happens in the Arab world the US tries to have people believe that it was behind it? As if Arabs are incapable of doing inspiring things of their own accord. The only reason the US would be thinking about intervening in Libya is to save the regime, not necessarily Qathafi himself I mean ensure that Libya has a regime that goes along with the US agenda.
Is it a coincidence that the US has just announced unilateral sanctions on Libya just as a popular uprising has taken over most of the country? How could anyone think the sanctions are principally aimed at Qathafi, they've had years to put in place sanctions when he was in full control but didn't but now do so when he's mostly irrelevant outside Tripoli and some small towns and may not even last there much longer. I've always maintained that the US would send in troops to save key Arab regimes (including Egypt's) if they thought they were seriously threatened and that it had a reasonable chance of working. Though obviously they would dress it up as somehow being motivated by humanitarian concerns. But there is no similarity with Iraq in 2003 at all, here they're thinking about intervention to save a client-regime not to overthrow a regime they didn't like. They get all that they want with Qathafi in power, all they want is to secure the oil and it's secure under Qathafi who has done everything wanted of him.
The NFSL is not behind the uprising. It doesn't seem to operate except in the US and there's absolutely no evidence that they even exist in Libya nevermind have the slightest influence. That the US would be happy for such unrest and popular forces taking control in an important oil producing Arab state ruled by an obedient US-client dictator is just madness. They are very upset at this. The Libyan representatives at the UN and former Qathafi ministers who're defecting and some calling for intervention have nothing to do with the uprising at most they're just trying to hijack it. They're just opportunists jumping off a sinking ship, they want intervention because they feel that Qathafi the person is going down and want the Americans to save them from their own people, who will not forget that they willingly worked for the Qathafi regime. As if they also didn't know it was a criminal dictatorship until now.
I don't know if Libya was responsible for Lockerbie or not and I really don't care. Even if it were true it would be miniscule compared to all of Qathafi's other crimes. Qathafi has already massacred thousands of his own people and he expelled 30,000 Palestinians from Libya in 1995, anyone who expels and/or abuses the Palestinians deserves to be overthrown as far as I'm concerned. The UK media is only peddling these stories about Lockerbie again because the UK government (and the governments of the US and EU) are trying to convince everyone that they have just discovered now that Qathafi is a criminal dictator and didn't realise before. They never seriously criticised Qathafi for the last 10 years ever since the Clinton-Blair initiative to turn him into an ally especially since 2003 when he overtly joined the US-backed tyrants club.
Contrary to what some naive leftists seem to believe Qathafi was never part of the pan-Arab movement nor did he try to unite Africa against Western imperialism other than dishing out a load of stupid narcissistic sloganeerings. The US is really taken aback by events and has little influence, their "experts" on the Middle East nowadays are completely clueless, just look at Jeffrey Feltman lately. There's no evidence of CIA fronts leading the revolutionaries. Although we should be vigilant also remember that the US/Israel often encourages propaganda stories of it being behind uprisings against regimes they support to give Arabs an exaggerated impression of US power in the region to make them feel defeatist and that Arabs can never influence their own destinies. Ever noticed how whenever something inspiring happens in the Arab world the US tries to have people believe that it was behind it? As if Arabs are incapable of doing inspiring things of their own accord. The only reason the US would be thinking about intervening in Libya is to save the regime, not necessarily Qathafi himself I mean ensure that Libya has a regime that goes along with the US agenda.
Is it a coincidence that the US has just announced unilateral sanctions on Libya just as a popular uprising has taken over most of the country? How could anyone think the sanctions are principally aimed at Qathafi, they've had years to put in place sanctions when he was in full control but didn't but now do so when he's mostly irrelevant outside Tripoli and some small towns and may not even last there much longer. I've always maintained that the US would send in troops to save key Arab regimes (including Egypt's) if they thought they were seriously threatened and that it had a reasonable chance of working. Though obviously they would dress it up as somehow being motivated by humanitarian concerns. But there is no similarity with Iraq in 2003 at all, here they're thinking about intervention to save a client-regime not to overthrow a regime they didn't like. They get all that they want with Qathafi in power, all they want is to secure the oil and it's secure under Qathafi who has done everything wanted of him.
The NFSL is not behind the uprising. It doesn't seem to operate except in the US and there's absolutely no evidence that they even exist in Libya nevermind have the slightest influence. That the US would be happy for such unrest and popular forces taking control in an important oil producing Arab state ruled by an obedient US-client dictator is just madness. They are very upset at this. The Libyan representatives at the UN and former Qathafi ministers who're defecting and some calling for intervention have nothing to do with the uprising at most they're just trying to hijack it. They're just opportunists jumping off a sinking ship, they want intervention because they feel that Qathafi the person is going down and want the Americans to save them from their own people, who will not forget that they willingly worked for the Qathafi regime. As if they also didn't know it was a criminal dictatorship until now.
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