Because apparently the wogs have no clue how to manage their oil... er, their country.
Two years after the dispatch of the Monster of the Maghreb and it's patently obvious that Libya is a failed state. That of course is neither here nor there to the Nations of Virtue who orchestrated the Libyan "regime change." What gets their attention is the fact that the much ballyhooed "reconstruction" that British, French, and American conglomerates were salivating over even as we were bombing the place to ratshit has yet to begin.
Not only that, but that gusher of oil money coming out of the ground has slowed to a trickle as the Libyans steer their ship of state head-on into the rocky shoals of anarchy.
So, it's NATO to the rescue, again!
Hmm... security advisers... I still remember when the US was sending security advisers to Viet Nam in the early sixties...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
NATO's ignoble achievement in Libya
Libya's lame duck parliament, which governs nothing beyond the oil industry, today approved another cabinet for Prime Minister Ali Zidan.
A year after the murder of Gaddafi, American media have more or less forgotten about Libya, with the exception of the "Benghazi incident," the murder of the American ambassador in September, and that only because the right end of the political spectrum is using it as a pathetic cudgel with which to smear Obama. See for example Paul Wolfowitz's opportunistic slag of Obama at the American Enterprise Institute site today.
To read reasoned reportage about the state of affairs in Libya it's necessary to read foreign sites. This opinion piece from The Hindu for example provides more context for the death of Ambassador Stevens than anything yet published in America.
Meanwhile, the oil keeps flowing, the oil money keeps disappearing, a tiny handful of kleptocrats allied with the oil industry keep getting richer, and the average Libyan is left stunned and bewildered by the chaos that now reigns in his country.
A year after the murder of Gaddafi, American media have more or less forgotten about Libya, with the exception of the "Benghazi incident," the murder of the American ambassador in September, and that only because the right end of the political spectrum is using it as a pathetic cudgel with which to smear Obama. See for example Paul Wolfowitz's opportunistic slag of Obama at the American Enterprise Institute site today.
To read reasoned reportage about the state of affairs in Libya it's necessary to read foreign sites. This opinion piece from The Hindu for example provides more context for the death of Ambassador Stevens than anything yet published in America.
Meanwhile, the oil keeps flowing, the oil money keeps disappearing, a tiny handful of kleptocrats allied with the oil industry keep getting richer, and the average Libyan is left stunned and bewildered by the chaos that now reigns in his country.
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