Tuesday, March 29, 2011

All Together, Now

Human rights groups are now accusing loyalist forces in Libya of 'disappearing' their opposition, claiming political activists and critics of the regime have been abducted, held incommunicado, likely to be tortured and perhaps murdered. This is Africa, and the Middle East, and represents traditional backward, tribal societies, so should this be a surprising revelation?

NATO has announced that in taking command of the UN-mandated coalition to ensure that Gadhafi's forces do not run amok over the rebel strongholds, slaughtering too many civilians so as to make the civilized world wince in pain, they will be neutral. They have been authorized to ensure that a no-fly zone is in effect, and they state that means neither government flights nor rebel flights will be permitted.

Who knew the rebels were so well equipped with warplanes as to rival those of the Libyan airforce?

Speaking of which, when it comes to arming either the government or the rebel forces, NATO will ensure that neither takes place; complete neutrality. While at the same time, American President Barack Obama, states that he will not authorize the removal of Moammar Gadhafi on the one hand, while also stating that Gadhafi must decamp, then muses about arming the rebel forces.

For, he has stated the United States will not and must not and can not stand by and permit a slaughter to occur, for such a massacre "would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world. It was not in our national interest to let that happen. I refused to let that happen." Cue the cymbals and the drums in recognition of true nobility.

And then try this on for size: the rebel groups singing "the martyr is loved by Allah", and declaiming while carrying the body of a rebel fighter to the back of a waiting vehicle: "See how his body smells only of the martyr's scent. We have God with us and the winds of paradise are blowing in our faces."

And these poor deluded souls who have no yardstick of intelligent reality of the outside world: "Gadhafi told us for years that America was the great Satan. He said Britain was Satan's tail and France was trashed. If we ever believed him, then we don't now. We prayed to God for help and he turned our enemies into our allies."

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posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, March 29, 2011

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