AS USUAL THE LEFT IS SEEKING TO KILL SOMEBODY AS A 'WORLD ENEMY'

Submitted by: Donald Hank

 

The Libyan intervention: another bell that tolls the death of America

 

by Lawrence Auster at View from the Right, "the right blog for the right"
I haven't written lately about the Libyan intervention because it's so insane it makes me feel insane. NATO and the U.S. have long since dropped the limited mission, as lawless as that was, of "protecting civilians." They are openly waging war against the Libyan government and are seeking to kill Kaddafi.

It has to be repeated that the U.S. in 2003 made a settlement with Kaddafi over the Lockerbie bombing. It included his payment of financial restitution to victims' families. Sure, it would have been better if we had punished him for Lockerbie back in the '80s. But we didn't do that. We let 17 years pass and then we made peace with him. As a practical matter, Lockerbie as of 2003 became a dead issue. The same neoconservatives who now are calling for Kaddafi's head were lauding him as a new-found ally and friend of the U.S. in 2003 and 2004. And since then, Kaddafi hasn't done anything against the U.S. or against anyone. He has not been backing anti-Western jihadists and terrorists. The NATO campaign to kill him or drive him from power is criminal. The Western alliance has become a criminal alliance.

And not only is it criminal, it is whimsical. Why did the U.S., France, and Britain choose to make war against Kaddafi, and not against some other Mideast dictator? Whim. And whimsicality is the mark of tyranny.

And what does the absence of any real debate in the U.S. about the Libyan intervention say about us? It says that we are slaves to that tyranny.