From Namibia – this is the first account I’ve read where someone has pointed to the big elephant in the room. Are the events in Libya and Ivory Coast the Europeans using the pretext of “Duty to Protect Civilians” as a pretext for a reconquest of Africa by the Global powers of Europe and the United States.
Connecting this back to my bigger picture – once you allow the idea that UN mandates trump national sovereignty, where does this end?
Let’s say in a year or two, La Raza officially declares with support from the Mexican government, that Arizona, New Mexico and Southern California are in their opinion, no longer part of the United States Regime and armed gangs of Mexican drug dealers start to attack US Government facilities and break into Armories and start stealing military weapons.
The US Govenment and or California “loyalist” national guard forces open fire on armed Mexican Freedom Fighters fighting for rights of Mexicans to Democratically rule the former Loyalist territories.
I really don’t give a crap about Qadaffi or the hashish smoking rebel soldiers. What terrifies me is the precedent this is setting and how quickly almost all of the world’s media outlets jumped on board.
Unintended consequences are leading all of us to global war. But the myopic mainstream media and “do gooder” liberals of the West are too stupid to think beyond their emotions of the moment to think about the long term affects of their actions.
Reality is a real b*tch and it tends to bite the unwary square in the a**.
England sending in any troops is a very serious mistake. That could flip the situation with Egypt.
Morocco owns a bunch of Mirage F1s and some newly arrived F16s. The spectre of a French, Italian and English recolonialization of North Africa and the Middle East could explode in a hundred places at once, not the least being the streets of Europe.
Let’s say Egypt threatens to shut down the Suez Canal and Morocco closes the straits of Gibralter, trapping the NATO forces in the Mediterranean. [see Suez Crisis, 1953] About that time Iran attacks Iraq and Pakistan pours over the border into Afghanistan, China invades Taiwan and Mexican troops pour into Southern California… The US treasury is empty and can’t buy a can of soup…. North Korea fires a missile at Alaska and President Obama is busy accepting new followers on Twitter
Maybe I’m just not taking happy pills…