The nation – in the first flush of your occupation in Iraq, shortly after he was pulled down statues, Thomas Friedman wrote, "Whether they were for or against this war ... you have to feel good, that the right over wrong. America did the right thing. It is one of the most evil regimes toppled out of the country, and I don't think we know that even a fraction of how deep evil. "
Flash forward eight years and Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times writes that "for all legitimate concerns about Libyan conflict, it is important to remember, the potential gains. The first aim is humanitarian aid. Gaddafi regime is extremely brutal and extracted a terrible vengeance on the people and towns in an uprising. If all goes well, intervention in Libya might also help turn the tide against the gathering forces of reaction in the Middle East. A democratic Middle East remains in the long-term interest of their people and of the rest of the world. "
The innocence of liberal hawk is one of the few truly renewable, America seems to be in abundance. Liberal hawks treasure their innocence, but they are also very careless, as they still lose. And every time they find them until later, again just in time for another bad idea.
Libya is not Iraq. This particular surge of bombing comes with United Nations approval; The United States did not lead the charge, but followed the initial reluctance. And an invitation to attack came from a credible resistance movement in Libya.
And yet, although the contexts are different, errors in logic, strategy, and morality remain roughly the same. In the line of the famously attributed to Mark Twain, "history will not be repeated. At best it sometimes rhymes. " Particularly known is a part of liberal opinion opposed to the cause of American militarism.
A call from Libyan rebels no-fly zone. Those who resist Qaddafi, deserves our support. But not alone determine the nature of it. Solidarity is not a process whereby you unquestioningly give up responsibility for own actions, this includes an assessment of what is appropriate and what is possible. The left should admit that the neintervenovani could mean the slaughter of the Libyan Revolution. If the ratio of forces on the ground could not sustain resistance on its own, it could, as a result. Spontaneous, organic nature of these uprisings in the last few months have shown that democratic revolution are complex, unpredictable and complex process, which can be shifts in collective popular confidence translated into differences between devices, political, military, and Government.
But nor should we be deterred with accusations that it against military intervention, we are in effect supporting Gadhafi – in particular, supporters of States who were until recently arming him because arguments against Gadhafi are not the same as the arguments for the bombing. Whereas that allied forces insist that regime change and occupation is the goal, it is difficult to understand, what is the objective. Gadhafi remains, it will be subdivided by country. If the bombardment stops, Qaddafi, a much more dangerous for the declines will likely finish the job. If Gadhafi, we have no idea what ethnic and regional differences emerge. What victory looks like in these circumstances, it is anybody's guess.
By far the knee-jerk reaction on Western military action, opposition to the bombing to be a reflection on a reflexive urge to mislead in the West of the war to foreign policy. This impulse is followed by a battered circular logic in three parts: (1) it is necessary to do something now. (2) It is something. (3), so we have to do. And that something will inevitably includes bombing.
Such a perversion of "now" acts as an abstract point in time: a moment, which bears no reference and carries with it no implication. Amnesia and ignorance are powerful permissions. But powerless, who live with the consequences, or the luxury of forgetting. Let us not forget, Shatila, Falluja, Abu Ghraib or Jenin – the name, but a few of the horrific war crimes, in which she was an accomplice to the West.
This time, however, does not need references because the hypocrisy, plays in real time. Protests in Tunisia in January, French Foreign Minister offers the Tunisian police training "to restore calm." The day before he was attacked by Libya, dozens of the demonstrators was shot in Yemen. Less than a week before the Saudi forces attacked Bahrain, where many of the protesters were killed. They are allies.
So while the West apparently has the power to intervene, owing to its history of colonialism and imperialism, has no more credibility on humanitarian grounds, which in this region than Iran would bomb Bahrain in defense of the Shiites, who are currently there is dying.
The question of whether the West should be involved in this region is debatable. For several decades it was intervention, arming despots (including the Qaddafi) of Lukashenko's dictators and ignoring human rights violations. The question is how and in whose interest hits. If Western Governments Really want to stop the violations of human rights, why not start with the Gaza Strip, where there are people in forty-four years of the occupation on a regular basis in the ruins?
Libya is not Iraq. In some ways it is worse. Since the tragedy of Iraq still unfolding, and therefore we ought to know better; and, therefore, that the Arabs have shown us how to democratize the Arab world, and it did not include our bombing is. I have demonstrated that the revolution, that greater freedom and democracy come from below. It is not imposed on them under foreigners from 50,000 feet above.
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