<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">From Phyllis Bennis: <a href="http://www.ips-dc.org/articles/dont_no-fly_libya">http://www.ips-dc.org/articles/dont_no-fly_libya</a><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; "><font face="Times New Roman">… Humanitarian crises simply do not shape U.S. policy. If they did, we might have heard a bit more last week when the Baghdad government <span> </span>-- armed, financed, trained, and supported by the United States -- killed 29 Iraqi civilians demonstrating against corruption. We might have seen humanitarian involvement in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where millions of civilians have been killed in Africa’s longest and perhaps most brutal war. And we might have seen, if not direct U.S. intervention, at least an end to the U.S. enabling of the Israeli assault on Gaza that killed more than 900 civilians, </font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; "><a href="http://pchrgaza.org/files/PressR/English/2008/2008/07-2009.html"><font face="Times New Roman">313 of them children</font></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; "><font face="Times New Roman">.…</font></span></div></body></html>