2011/02/26

Is US Pushing for Civil War in Libya to Justify Military Intervention??

Is Tripoli being "set up" for a civil war to justify US and NATO military intervention? There is no question that Colonel Muammar Al-Gaddafi is a dictator, as he has been for about 42 years. Yet, it appears that tensions are being ratcheted up, and the flames of revolt are being fanned inside Libya: These include earlier statements by the British Foreign Secretary William Hague, that Colonel Qaddafi had fled Libya to Venezuela. This statement served to electrify the revolt against Qaddafi and his regime in Libya. Although all three have dictatorship in common, Qaddafi's Libya is quite different from Ben Ali's in Tunesia or Mubarak's in Egypt. The Libyan leadership is NOT outright subservient to the United States and the European Union. Unlike the cases of Tunisia and Egypt, the relationship that exists between Qaddafi and both the US and the EU is a modus vivendi. Simply put, Qaddafi is an independent Arab dictator, and NOT a managed dictator like Ben Ali and Mubarak. In Tunisia and Egypt, the status quo prevails, the military machine and neo- liberalism remain intact; In Libya, however, upsetting the established order is a US and EU objective!

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