The wages of greed
The wages of greed
A COALITION that includes the most despised former colonizers of African countries and led by the United States has attacked Libya under cover of a UN resolution supposedly for humanitarian purposes — i.e., to stop the loyalist troops of strongman Moamar Gaddafi from “attacking their own people.”
The United Kingdom, France and Italy have a long and bloody record in Africa as brutal colonizers. Their claim that they’re involved in the bombing of Libyan air defenses in behalf of protecting civilians is likely to be met with a great deal of skepticism among Arabs and Africans not only because of that record. (Libya itself was a colony of Italy from 1915 till the end of the Second World War, for example. Together with the UK and France, Italy later helped install the Idris monarchy that Gaddafy overthrew in a 1969 coup.) It would be perfectly justified. The attack is after all about greed, figleafed as “humanitarian”.
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