He Yet Lives
The fiction that NATO and the United States have assembled their forces and their determination flying over Libya for the sole purpose of preventing another human rights catastrophe, and that there is no investment of opportunity to assassinate Libya’s dictator Moammar Gadhafi has been more than dispelled of late with the precision bombing of critical target areas.There has been some espionage, some betrayal of trust, some collaboration with NATO from sources knowledgeable and close to the administration. Bombing of Gadhafi’s compound and key command and communication structures, and the compound where his youngest son resided with his family has taken place with the intention of lucking out and hitting the leader himself.
What other reason to bomb one of his son’s fortified compounds knowing full well there will be collateral damage, if not to target the presence of the Libyan leader himself? Three of Gadhafi’s grandsons, along with their father were killed in the raid. And it was felt that since Moammar Ghadafi hadn’t been seen afterward that he had either been severely incapacitated or outright killed. This, despite assurances from regime spokespeople that Ghadafi had survived, but was in mourning.
In mourning, but did not attend his son’s funeral? Sounds suspicious, sounds as though the truth is being withheld, sounds like a temporary withholding of the inevitable; word of his timely death. But it was all along, unfortunately, true. He was merely licking his wounds. And truly mourning the death of four loved ones. That he himself had been sent to perdition was merely the fondness of wishful thinking.
He will not go softly into that dark night of conspicuous loss of honour. He is Libya’s dictator and Libya’s dictator he has every intention of remaining as. The international community has peculiarly sought to express their disapproval of the tyrant who had latterly shed his mantle as the world’s most effective spokesman and encourager of terrorism.
Others have since taken his place, when he saw it to his advantage to offer himself as a partner to the West in the ‘war on terror‘. Just as tigers don’t voluntarily surrender their stripes, Gadhafi has no intention of withdrawing from the country he owns, lock, stock and key.
The Libyan prime minister declared: “He has lost a son and he is in mourning. He will be back with us soon.” And so it came to pass. He is back. He has no intention of departing. He will continue to confound and to district NATO forces by the imposition of his iron-fisted rule on the people of Libya.
Foreign forces will have to leave soon enough for what has occurred is a stale-mate. A civil war. Where no one really wins. And where it is possible that through continued conflict and continued atrocities, the country may split itself along tribal lines.
The sacrifices of lives of countless people who are not Libyan but who have since become refugees from Libya attempting to escape the violence and suspicions levelled against them as possibly representing African mercenaries is another matter. The leader of Libya is in mourning for his youngest son and three grandchildren. Lives lost do represent a personal tragedy.
Who is there to mourn the loss of life in the exodus from the coast of North Africa of desperate Africans where hundreds drown when their inadequate vessels capsize in inclement waters while they attempt to find haven. Seven vessels each carrying hundreds of fearful, innocent men, women and children have been lost at sea. Moammar Gadhafi has warned Europe that for their pains in intervening in a sovereign country’s civil conflict he will ensure they are flooded with refugee migrants.
At least in this instance his promise rings true. In exchange for the death of his four family members he has sacrificed the lives of many hundreds of poor black Africans fleeing a situation they have been absorbed into and which they have no wish to be a part of. Fortune does not smile benignly upon
Labels: Africa, Chaos, Conflict
posted by Pieface @ Friday, May 13, 2011
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