Libya Spits on the International Community and for Good Reason

by Cranky Ramblings

So what the hell is going on in Libya?  Gadaffi  and Co are killing their own citizens mercilessly and the international community who in the past have embraced Gadaffi, mainly for his oil were so slow to react till the deaths stemming from the genocide piled on into the thousands and only until public sentiment was too much for the fearless politicians do we now have a loosely set up “No Fly Zone” which is probably too little too late, especially those who lost their lives in the cruel hands of the evil dictator, a dictator who in the past was embraced by the international community due mainly to his country’s vast reserve of oil.

You have to sometimes wonder why we even have politicians at all.  Is it for their bumbling policies that have created all this chaos in the world?  Is it for their lack of convictions and clueless leadership which only panders to the sentiments of their electorates and citizens?  The only reason America did not agree to a “No Fly Zone” initially was because they did not want to get into another war in a Muslim country as the two wars they are currently involved in (Iraq and Afghanistan) are hugely unpopular back home.  As far as I can see, the true leadership in relation to this crisis is nowhere to be found.  The international community failed in Darfur, failed in Srajevo and have now failed in Libya.

I can’t seem to work out where these international diplomats stand on the issue of Libya.  Are they for Gadaffi or against him?  Do they think he is a terrorist or a reformist?  The conflicting signals they give is enough to give you a permanent migraine.  On the one hand they say Gadaffi must stop killing his own people and a no fly zone is the best way to do this and in the same breath say that a caution and restrain will need to be observed as a protracted war in Libya is the last thing the world wants as it could affect the oil rich region.  So once again it boils down to profits before principle and profits before people.  It’s all about OIL, OIL, OIL! 

You either stop Gadaffi with determination and conviction and use everything at your disposal to get the job done even if that means bombing his arse into smithereens or you might as well keep out of it altogether.  Standing by the sidelines “condemning” Libya, imposing meaningless travel and economic sanctions has no effect to the Libyan regime and no use to the revolution especially to the people who are staring down the barrel of the gun waiting for the inevitable “POW” that is going to blow their brains into a million little pieces.  The weakness of the sanctions has been proven ineffective in the past and once again in this case it has proven to be of no use.  Thousands are dead and thousands will continue to die.  Thank you for your leadership “International Community”.  They sit in their cushy little offices making decisions for other people and telling others how best to live their lives with very little concept of the reality of it all and have proven time and again to be weak, gutless, fence sitters and ineffective.  Unfortunately, in this case and many others in the past, lives have been lost because of them. 

I don’t even know why we need the UN Security Council, G8 etc. etc. making all these life and deaths decisions.  As everyone knows every country has their own agenda.  China and Russia will most times veto military action on rogue states and you can only guess their motives for that.  Being far less than transparent and democratic in their own governance, they probably do not want to set too much of a precedent in which the standards they themselves cannot achieve.  Who knows, but what I do know is while these diplomats argue, innocent lives, lives that depend on the international community for help are lost by a cruel, ruthless dictator once named “the Mad Dog of the East” by Ronald Reagan, a term which shows how much ahead of his time the former president was.  If only goons like Sarkoszy, Blair and their cronies had a fraction of the foresight Reagan had, it may be so much different today.