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Things have radically changed, Barry. Now, the US Administration is presenting a detailed plan, endorsed by Bill Gates, to go hammer and tongs into Libya.
This could mean, if my judgment of strategy is right, the deployment of hundreds of warplanes and hundreds of missiles, being launched from warships and aircraft-carriers, an Irak/Serbia style campaign, where missiles reign down in cities hitting "military targets", and every one hundred civilians blown to smithereens is a "oh sorry for the bombs" mistake, full of "regrettable" collateral damage written on the faces of military spokesmen while attempting to spin themselves off as latter-day saints.
I've seen it all before, and hoped I wouldn't see it happen again. I had hoped that no government would compromise Britain again in other peoples' wars.
I agreed with the idea of joint defence cooperation between Britain and France, if this was for purely defensive measures for Britain and France, but this with Libya is something else.
Adding to that, only ten days ago the rebels were on the march trying to conquer Sirte and Tripoli, with weapons in their hands, showing all the world that they were attacking to impose their authority with use of force in Libyan towns and cities where not all people think like they do.
The fact that their leader was a top minister in Col. Gedaffi's government only adds insult to injury. One would have expected him to act decently and within respect of peace, if he had had anything to say against his own government.
Instead he escalated the situation and dragged the country into civil war.
If I supported him, I would be likely to support revolution and civil war in Britain, but as I don't support him, neither will I ever preach such things in our Country.
Principles remain steadfast with me: if you have something to say, stand up and say it decently, but don't bring revolution and civil war on your own country.
The Libyans probably had it much better than most industrialised countries, with all social services laid on, and no poverty, unlike many poor countries further south in the Sahara, where I would have welcomed some sort of economic help in the form of civic infrastructure (irrigation and the like) on the part of western countries.
As for oil, Libya was and still is, to an extent, supplying the stuff, and has never undertaken steps to use it as a means to damage the West by withholding it or trying to increase the price of oil artificially.
To claim that Britain has to attack Libya in order to get oil is hypocrisy, and exactly that will be explained by the Libyan government as a reason as to why any military attack from the West is being carried out.
At this rate, I see very dark horisons, and don't really know what else to add to this.