Political infantilism: Cameron and Sarkozy smash up Libya.
The African Union has called for an immediate cessation to the bombing of Libya. This call has been completely ignored and censored by the British and French media who are now fully embedded into their respective governments policy of military intervention.
The panel representing the AU calling for cessation comprises Presidents Jacob Zuma of South Africa, Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of Mauritania, Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali and Sassou Nguesso of Congo.
The legitimate contribution of the high ranking representatives of the African Union, including the South African president Jacob Zuma, to a negotiated solution to a civil war in a country on the African continent, was sabotaged and subsequently dismissed out of hand by NATO and in particular by the two most important former colonial powers in Africa, France and Great Britain. They gave clear instructions to their puppets in Bengazi to reject any negotiation in return for the promise of NATO bombs.
Showing a complete disregard for the dignity and the right of the representatives of the African continent to settle their own affairs, the right wing governments of Britain and France, the leaders of which are both reactionary throw backs to the time of Margaret Thatcher and Apartheid days, ignored and dismissed the African Union contribution. The state media in both Britain and France gave an initial welcome to the AU's actions, but were then probably prompted to report negatively by their government and intelligence contacts.
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... the overriding sense Cameron and Sarkozy give is not one of educated mature politicians ... rather it is one of political infantilism and regression. 40 something is the new 18.
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To demonstrate the importance of the mission, the president of the most powerful and important country in Africa joined in the high level African Union delegation: Jacob Zuma. Together with Mac Maharaj, Jacob Zuma is credited with foiling the attempts of the South African security forces to balkanise South Africa. He is also the South African leader who stopped civil war in his country by winning Zulus over to the ANC and away from Inkatha and Buthelezi. All this more than qualified Zuma to help the Libyans negotiate a settlement and advise and help both parties avoid the carve up of their country by foreign powers.
In invoking the guarded support of the Arab League the British representative, foreign secretary Hague demonstrated the deepest possible hypocrisy. The Arab League governments are primarily made up of the very dictators that the people of the Middle East and North Africa in this 'Arab Spring' are trying to get rid of.
That lone figure at a recent press conference of a stooge from the disgusting satrapy of the Emirates, who sat on the stand flanked by British and French representatives calling for armed intervention in Libya, cut a disgusting figure that must have remind both Arabs and Africans of European colonialism.
Plus ca change, plus c'est le meme chose!
The wild, rag tag and increasingly ferocious grouping of anti-Gaddafi forces, much less respectable than the Kosovan Liberation Army ever was, naturally feel disinclined to negotiate any peaceful settlement. They have been primed on what actions they must take in order to guarantee the support of France and Great Britain.
Moreover, if they, the opposition, are already calling in airstrikes, following the pattern of the murderous strategies the British and US soldiers use in Afghanistan, then there is very little need for them to negotiate an outcome is there? The Mad Max puppets road to power will be paved by NATO bombers.
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Cameron and Sarkozy are interested in smashing up Libya...Their solutions are Alexandrine, vicious and unrealistic.
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There has been no election whatsoever and yet the French government has already recognised the Bengaszi coalition as the legitimate government of Libya. One only needs to remember the recent history of France in Africa to recall that the French government has been ruthless and anti-democratic in pursuit of its strategic interests, going so far as to support the genocidally inclined opposition to the former dictator of the Ivory Coast, bombing him in his palace and capturing him.
One only has to remember the relatively recent coup d'etat that the French government organised in Congo Brazzaville and the legitimacy it gave the 'golpistas' when these organised a fake election in 2009.
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Sarkozy, that self styled little Napoleon, that right wing goat, is playing to cheap French nationalist sentiment.
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At the same time it is no coincidence that both Sarkozy and Cameron have attacked the existing tolerant multicultural set up in their respective countries appealing to the worst, most recidivist elements in France and the United Kingdom.
Negotiated settlement was the objective of the African Union.This is not the objective of Britain and France. The overriding sense Cameron and Sarkozy give is not one of educated mature politicians taking important decisions, rather it is one of infantilism. 40 is the new 18.
Cameron and Sarkozy are interested in smashing up Libya and Gaddafi, in breaking and destroying, because they have no understanding or respect for the internal processes of North African countries. Their solutions are Alexandrine, vicious and unrealistic. Sarkozy the self styled little Napoleonic right wing goat, is playing to cheap French nationalist sentiment.
Clearly their military intervention in Libya is unwarranted. The fact that Cameron only days before the uprising in Libya began was on a tour to sell arms to Arab dictators shows how sinister and self interested the British involvement in Libya really is.
The only peace is the peace of the grave. In the end if Britain and France pave the way for a puppet government of dubious opportunists to take power in Libya they will be creating yet another serious and unstable locus in North Africa with dangerous consequences.
The current right wing British and French governments may comfort themselves by looking back at history; since the war the dictators installed and sponsored by France and Great Britain - Bahrain an excellent example - have governed most of the Middle East and North Africa without democracy to the benefit of the former colonialists for half a century. Why shouldn't a puppet government in Libya continue to do the same?
Military intervention is a cynical and vile cast of the dice by Great Britain and France against the true aspirations of the Libyan people for reform, democracy and a stable and prosperous country.
A Mad Max army of Islamic fundamentalists and nationalists prepare for government, with the help of Cameron and Sarkozy
The African Union has called for an immediate cessation to the bombing of Libya. This call has been completely ignored and censored by the British and French media who are now fully embedded into their respective governments policy of military intervention.
The panel representing the AU calling for cessation comprises Presidents Jacob Zuma of South Africa, Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of Mauritania, Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali and Sassou Nguesso of Congo.
The legitimate contribution of the high ranking representatives of the African Union, including the South African president Jacob Zuma, to a negotiated solution to a civil war in a country on the African continent, was sabotaged and subsequently dismissed out of hand by NATO and in particular by the two most important former colonial powers in Africa, France and Great Britain. They gave clear instructions to their puppets in Bengazi to reject any negotiation in return for the promise of NATO bombs.
Showing a complete disregard for the dignity and the right of the representatives of the African continent to settle their own affairs, the right wing governments of Britain and France, the leaders of which are both reactionary throw backs to the time of Margaret Thatcher and Apartheid days, ignored and dismissed the African Union contribution. The state media in both Britain and France gave an initial welcome to the AU's actions, but were then probably prompted to report negatively by their government and intelligence contacts.
_________________________________
... the overriding sense Cameron and Sarkozy give is not one of educated mature politicians ... rather it is one of political infantilism and regression. 40 something is the new 18.
_______________________________
To demonstrate the importance of the mission, the president of the most powerful and important country in Africa joined in the high level African Union delegation: Jacob Zuma. Together with Mac Maharaj, Jacob Zuma is credited with foiling the attempts of the South African security forces to balkanise South Africa. He is also the South African leader who stopped civil war in his country by winning Zulus over to the ANC and away from Inkatha and Buthelezi. All this more than qualified Zuma to help the Libyans negotiate a settlement and advise and help both parties avoid the carve up of their country by foreign powers.
In invoking the guarded support of the Arab League the British representative, foreign secretary Hague demonstrated the deepest possible hypocrisy. The Arab League governments are primarily made up of the very dictators that the people of the Middle East and North Africa in this 'Arab Spring' are trying to get rid of.
That lone figure at a recent press conference of a stooge from the disgusting satrapy of the Emirates, who sat on the stand flanked by British and French representatives calling for armed intervention in Libya, cut a disgusting figure that must have remind both Arabs and Africans of European colonialism.
Plus ca change, plus c'est le meme chose!
The wild, rag tag and increasingly ferocious grouping of anti-Gaddafi forces, much less respectable than the Kosovan Liberation Army ever was, naturally feel disinclined to negotiate any peaceful settlement. They have been primed on what actions they must take in order to guarantee the support of France and Great Britain.
Moreover, if they, the opposition, are already calling in airstrikes, following the pattern of the murderous strategies the British and US soldiers use in Afghanistan, then there is very little need for them to negotiate an outcome is there? The Mad Max puppets road to power will be paved by NATO bombers.
_________________________________
Cameron and Sarkozy are interested in smashing up Libya...Their solutions are Alexandrine, vicious and unrealistic.
__________________________________
There has been no election whatsoever and yet the French government has already recognised the Bengaszi coalition as the legitimate government of Libya. One only needs to remember the recent history of France in Africa to recall that the French government has been ruthless and anti-democratic in pursuit of its strategic interests, going so far as to support the genocidally inclined opposition to the former dictator of the Ivory Coast, bombing him in his palace and capturing him.
One only has to remember the relatively recent coup d'etat that the French government organised in Congo Brazzaville and the legitimacy it gave the 'golpistas' when these organised a fake election in 2009.
______________________________________
Sarkozy, that self styled little Napoleon, that right wing goat, is playing to cheap French nationalist sentiment.
_____________________________________
At the same time it is no coincidence that both Sarkozy and Cameron have attacked the existing tolerant multicultural set up in their respective countries appealing to the worst, most recidivist elements in France and the United Kingdom.
Negotiated settlement was the objective of the African Union.This is not the objective of Britain and France. The overriding sense Cameron and Sarkozy give is not one of educated mature politicians taking important decisions, rather it is one of infantilism. 40 is the new 18.
Cameron and Sarkozy are interested in smashing up Libya and Gaddafi, in breaking and destroying, because they have no understanding or respect for the internal processes of North African countries. Their solutions are Alexandrine, vicious and unrealistic. Sarkozy the self styled little Napoleonic right wing goat, is playing to cheap French nationalist sentiment.
Clearly their military intervention in Libya is unwarranted. The fact that Cameron only days before the uprising in Libya began was on a tour to sell arms to Arab dictators shows how sinister and self interested the British involvement in Libya really is.
The only peace is the peace of the grave. In the end if Britain and France pave the way for a puppet government of dubious opportunists to take power in Libya they will be creating yet another serious and unstable locus in North Africa with dangerous consequences.
The current right wing British and French governments may comfort themselves by looking back at history; since the war the dictators installed and sponsored by France and Great Britain - Bahrain an excellent example - have governed most of the Middle East and North Africa without democracy to the benefit of the former colonialists for half a century. Why shouldn't a puppet government in Libya continue to do the same?
Military intervention is a cynical and vile cast of the dice by Great Britain and France against the true aspirations of the Libyan people for reform, democracy and a stable and prosperous country.
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