As the various groups give their
views on the outcome of the NATO forced regime change in Libya, the
opinions switch from Shangrila in Libya, and a peaceful world, to
chaos with ethnic and religious battles, and Western oil companies
working the miracle of changing Libyan oil into money in Western
corporate shareholders' bank accounts. Who knows, but I think we can
take it that the first is out of the question. The country's
infrastructure has been decimated by NATO and marauding well armed
militia, hell bent on firing off as much armaments as possible. It
seemed as if the were on a bonus scheme from the Western arms
producers. In most of the scenes from that poor unfortunate country,
there hardly seems to a building that hasn't been multi-potholed.
What homes are left to go home to? Such Western vengeance directed at a man who was responsible 42 years
ago, for the bloodless overthrow of the Western puppet, King Idris, and
for the nationalisation of Libyan oil. At that time Libya was a very poor country, as far as the people were concerned but no as far as the oil compnaies and their cronies were concerned. Gadaffi used that oil revenue to
give Libya, food security by irrigation, free clean water pumped from under the Sahara, free education, free
health care, and he kept a lid on the religious fundamentalists, who
will now come to the fore. Probably his biggest crime in the eyes of
the Western corporate world was the nationalising of the oil. Had he
just taken power and left the oil in the hands of the Western
corporate greed machine, perhaps he would still be in power and
would still be feted by the West. Ah, that's capitalism for you.
