So the West's white knight in
shining armour that goes by the name of NATO rushed in to save the
Libyan people from a massacre. Six months later the Libyan people are
looking at 50,000 dead and 200,000 wounded, the destruction of their
water supply, electricity and their hospitals. Meanwhile friends of
the white knight are queueing up to get the contracts to rebuild the
destruction, of course the Libyan people will have the privilege of
paying the bill. Considering that the Libyan people had the best
education system and health service in the area and free clean
water to everybody, some of them will be asking, could we have done a
better job ourselves? Also would the white knight have rushed in to
their rescue had their main export been turnips? Don't turnip growers deserve protection as much as oil producers??
It is sad, for at this moment in
time so many Libyans will be filled with hope for the future of their
country, only later will they find out that they have lost their
country's assets to the Western corporate world, who are not a benevolent bunch. If and when the
reconstruction of their country starts, they will see their debt pile
up but their assets will not be theirs to pay the bills. They will
become just another nation in debt to the corporate world. How much
of the oil money will now go towards giving them some of the basics
they had before the white knight rushed in to save them, free
education, free health care, free clean water and cheap fuel?
