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The People United Can Always Be Exterminated

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Written by Richard Kane   
Wednesday, 30 March 2011 00:00


Had Qaddafi, through mass slaughter, managed to again gain firm control of Libya it would have been an ominous precedent that would influence events all over the world.

After the Chinese government reestablishment firm control following the Tienanmen Square massacre, protesters feared the same thing in their country as recently as in Burma. Protests in Egypt would have been affected if in recent memory there was a massive slaughter that put a dictator firmly back in charge again,
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/952158

After the UN resolution, France quickly attacked rather than joining the US and Britain who were arguing with Qaddafi over whether he was following his self-proclaimed ceasefire,
http://www.epakistannews.com/france-attack-on-libya.html

Had Obama at that point not sent in US planes and missiles. Qaddafi and his old arch-enemy bin Laden would have ganged up on France with threats. Whether or not attacks on France followed it would lead to a world where there was a lot more backing down.

I want to thank Vietnam for invading Cambodia and ending the Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge bloodbath. When President Bush overthrew the Saddam dictatorship the US engaged in nation building and telling the world the US knew best, while in Libya President Obama is trying to get out of the leadership role as much as possible. Learning to “mind our own business” would be the wrong lesson to learn from the recent problems in Iraq and Afghanistan.

If one goggles “France declares war on al Qaeda” and vice versa, one will see that France has so far done a good job standing up to extremism at very little cost. When the US does something to combat al Qaeda it ends up helping inspire al Qaeda’s belief that it is bankrupting the West. France is spending less and less on military spending as it accomplishes more and more.

It so far has been succeeding in bringing the 5% of France that practices Islam into the French community to the extent that when terrorists held French citizens hostage demanding that veils be allowed in French schools, French Muslims marched in support of France,
http://www.narutoforums.com/showthread.php?t=700559

Anti-Muslim hysterics in the US and elsewhere isn’t in sight in France. Rep. King and his domestic terror hearings couldn’t have happen in France. Peter King, after condemning a NY City mosque project by a US Muslim, Imam Raul, who participates in speaking tours sponsored by the State Department, and frequently condemns al Qaeda as a Cult-of-Death, Rep. King turned around and hysterically condemned US Muslims for not cooperating more with the FBI.

Qaddaffi faces war crimes charges as of March 3, 2011. Some sites claim the Qadaffi was ready to flee the country and this resolution got in the way.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8359861/Libya-Col-Gaddafi-to-face-ICC-war-crimes-probe.html

Now Italy is trying to get coalition partners to now agree on amnesty and safe-haven for Qaddafi if he leaves, sparing any more dying in this war,
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20110328/tpl-uk-libya-italy-02bfc7e.html

Some might say, what about “Hitler” but perhaps 90% of the holocaust could have been averted had Germany been allowed to sue for peace instead of facing the Nuremberg trials. Perhaps if war criminals were never punish some may interpret it as a license to do what they want. But nothing encourages oppress more than the combining of “Mind Ones Own Business” ideology with “No Appeasement” for criminals. Again thank you France. Thank you the US being helpful rather than under the Bush’s trying to be in charge.

Some claiming to be mad at US’s participation with the coalition in Libya may actually be worried about all the exaggerate stories we are getting about Iran and Syria, something that it is important to try to avoid. The lesson of World War I was supposedly “No Appeasement” the lesson of Vietnam and Iraq supposedly “Don’t get involved”. We always seem to learn the wrong lessons from history.

“The people united can always be exterminated” is fortunately, thanks to France and Obama, a lesson we don’t need to unlearn.

RichardKanePA.blogspot.com
 

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0 # RICHARDKANEpa 2011-03-30 12:09
AL QAEDA & DESPERATION
Most including muslims find much about al Qaeda to be repugnant

However when rebels in Iraq & now Afghanistan, wanted the US to leave their country, they found they were wasting their time trying to shoot at Americans due to all the body armor, ending up appreciating that an al Qaeda suicide-bomber can actually kill their enemy (land mines being a limited exception)

Al Qaeda has little attraction with those who want to fight with Israel since al Qaeda’s contention that the US is the real enemy not Israel, makes the average anti-Israel fighter think that they have enough enemies without al Qeada giving them more

This is not the case in Libya. If Gaddafi gains total control, where it looks like resistance is otherwise hopeless, al Qaeda suicidebombers will be greatly appreciated by many who oppose Gaddafi

Al Qaeda suicidebombers are almost never the first choice, but they can frequently be seen as the last hope, unless nonviolent protesters winning, makes the appeal of al Qaeda suicidebombers evaporate. One slight danger is that both Gaddafi and the rebels will hire al Qaeda suicidebombers as a last resort and war will continue forever which would be utopia from bin Laden’s point of view

Please also look at
www.opednews.com/Diary/War-on-Terror--War-on-Dru-by-RichardKane-071211-562.html
 
 
0 # rm 2011-04-03 15:12
Richard Kane is one confused old boy. Where does he get his information? Clearly he reads too much US media.

1. Qaddafi did not massacre anyone. He faced an insurgency financed, armed, trained, and organized by foreigners (CIA, MI6, mujhadeen, Saudi mercenaries).

2. The Chinese government did not massacre protesters at Tienanmen square. The MSM keeps repeating this but it did not happen.

3. Vietnam did not invade Cambodia. It was the other way around. Pol Pot claimed that Vietnam was part of the territory of the ancient Khmer Empire.

4. Criminal charges against people the US does not like are actually part of the propaganda campaign that seeks to legitimize the real criminal act -- a war of aggression against a nation that has threatened no one and does not even have an army capable of threatening anyone. Bush, Cheney, Obama and their crew are the real criminals of the world. Not Qaddafi for sure.

If you are so keen on "humanitarian wars," why are you not advocating for a no fly zone over Israel and Palestine. The Israelis have bombed Palestinian cities more over the last 40 years than anyone. The Israeli policy toward the Palestinian people is a very clear case of "ethnic cleansing" which is only the euphemism for genocide. What about it. Do you favor bombing Tel Aviv and other Israeli strongholds?
 

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