NATO coalition after Libyan oil and water

This article is not meant to wake your rage up (though it probably will). Just think about how different reality is from what you have been (and constantly are being) told by the media. You can do nothing to save the libyans. But you can always do something for yourself: you don't want to be like 'them'. You don't need violence in your life. You are the son/daughter of God. And you can spread love instead.

An analyst says the Western military alliance in Libya has nothing to do with democracy and has merely launched cynical imperialist attacks to provide the West with Libya's oil and riches.

Press TV has interviewed author and historian Dr. Webster Tarpley to get his views on the current situation in Libya. 

Press TV: Do you think that [Muammar] Gaddafi is still strong enough to remain in power and do you think that as [US] President [Barak] Obama said today that this is a humanitarian mission that has been continuing in Libya and he says will still continue? 

Tarpley: Well, I think we have to remember that there are two traditions in the United States. You have a certain kind of imperialist politician like Nixon or Bush the younger. These are brutal thugs. They talk about bombing people back into the Stone Age. Then you have the other tradition, the tradition of the hypocrites. We once had Woodrow Wilson and we have Obama today. 

Based on that performance at the United Nations today, I think Obama should get the Nobel Prize for hypocrisy. 
Libya is a country that has been raped. Libya had the most advanced standard of living in Africa measured by the UN in development programs, in terms of health, education, welfare, the status of women, and in many other social and economic measures. It also had the most advanced water infrastructure of just about any place in the world, and of course its oil industry, and many other things that were being promoted. 

This is now being completely smashed. Today we had the “imperialist” twins at the UN, [Mustafa Abdel] Jalil and [Mahmoud] Jibril telling us that 25,000 people have been killed as a result of the revolution and talking about those revolutionaries who are actually Al-Qaeda terrorist fighters plus other foreign fighters that have been brought in by the western NATO coalition. There are still massacres of black Libyans and black Africans that are ongoing. The US Special Forces are still on the ground continuously. 


Nevertheless these so called rebels are militarily impotent. They are not able after three weeks to capture Sirte or Bani Walid. There are vast areas of Libya that are not under their control. So Libya has been raped and the performance today by Obama, I think is a new loan in the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the Obama regime. I think the interesting question is how long will the Libyan war still go on. I think it will go on for a very long time and I think if the NATO forces push on to push their assets into Syria, the rebels may find it tough going. 

Press TV: Some say that it is now time for Libya to move on and to let the National Transitional Council (NTC) go forward with the democratic process that it is seeking. The question still remains though, will the revolutionaries be able to maintain political control in Libya without NATO, US, and UN backing. Of course there are also reports we have been hearing about divisions in this force and also prominent concern among all revolutions now across the Middle East and North Africa that the revolutionaries may not actually be in charge? 

Tarpley: I'm afraid I do not see any authentic revolutions any these areas. I see some cynical color revolutions and CIA people-power coups, with a certain amount of disguise going on, or camouflage you might say. It looks to me that you got a group around Belhaj and his group of jihadists, al-Qaeda veterans. You have the former chauffeur of Osama bin Laden, six years in Guantanamo Bay. Belhaj is trying to portray himself as a martyr, because he was tortured by the CIA. He was in fact a US Prisoner of War in Pakistan because he was organizing people to go and kill US forces in those countries. 

We've got a whole list of these other people. These are most likely the people who assassinated General [Abdul Fattah] Younes at the end of July, and now we have Salabi coming up saying that he simply will not tolerate Jalil, who is the head of state and Jibril, the head of government. 

Jalil and Jibril don't seem to really control the military forces worth anything. Those seem to be al-Qaeda and foreign fighters. So, I think it is very likely that these themes will fall out and I don't think that Jalil and Jibril will be able to buy insurance policies very easily, because their life expectancy is not good, with all of these al-Qaeda people around them who resent them, because they are of course holdovers from the Gaddafi regime. 

On the Western side, let's look at France. We got [French President Nicolas] Sarkozy and [British Prime Minister David] Cameron who made their demagogic tour of Libya a couple of days ago. I don't think they dared to go out in public much in Tripoli. They seemed to have limited their speeches to Ben Ghazi. There was Jacques Verges, from Paris who seemed to file a lawsuit against Sarkozy for high crimes against humanity, and I think there's an excellent basis for that.



 

Gaddafi has succeeded in blocking the path of the color revolutions, because every county was supposed to have fallen by now in the Middle East, and it hasn't happened. In particular Syria, has been slowed down for six months, because of Gaddafi's resistance. I think the US and the British are getting desperate about Syria. If they decide to go for an attack on Syria soon, I will mean that a lot of military resources that are now in the Central Mediterranean will be moved to the Eastern Mediterranean. 

At that point we will see that they will owe very little to these fighters on the ground and just about everything to the NATO bombing. The scoring that it's an authentic revolution is absurd. This is the NATO bombers and workers, the European officers, the US and other special forces that did it all. The role of these fighters is some fighting but mainly to be photographed by Al Jazeera. 

Press TV: Does this mean that Western type of democracy is what this international mission is all about? And do you think that that is not what the Libyan people would want to see? 

Tarpley: Democracy is totally irrelevant to this. This is a cynical imperialist attack aiming at the two things that the US, the British, and the French value. On the one hand the oil and on the other hand the water. The water may turn out to be more valuable than the oil. We've seen the people the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank and their contact with people seems to be through this guy [Ali] Tarhouni, the finance minister of the rebel council. Libya will be under IMF conditionality and that will mean the Washington consensus, deregulation, privatization, the destruction of any state-sector that remains, the destruction of any social welfare system, or social safety network, and all of those positive things that Gaddafi had done in his regime to distribute the oil revenue to increase the general welfare. 

As the IMF yoke is imposed, people are going to find that are not going to be able to go to college, that they won't have a family allowance, that they can't buy a house, thanks to the fact that this will all be dismantled, because this is what the IMF always does, I think we'll see even greater backlash against these IMF and NATO agents that are presently running the show. 

I think that the future is once again protracted guerrilla warfare, urban warfare, and depending on the fortunes of other warfare in other theaters, the Eastern Mediterranean warfare has enlarged because of Syria on the one hand, and also because of the Israel-Palestinian issue that may also heat up. That may siphon off some of these NATO resources maybe they will find that if the rebels are left on their own, I don't think they could last for even a month.