[Peace-discuss] Bush/Obama Doctrine
C. G. Estabrook
galliher at illinois.edu
Sat Mar 19 22:42:34 CDT 2011
Bush Doctrine Revised: Obama puts his stamp
The Western/Saudi/Qatari military intervention in Libya sets a dangerous
precedent. The charade of overthrowing regimes and invading countries in the
name of democracy was a bloody farce in the case of Bush era. They now don't
need to do that. They can just jump on the case where they see a potential for
a real democratic change and then guarantee the installation of a puppet regime
without having "boots on the ground", as Obama kept warning in White House
meetings. They bomb and kill and manage to maintain a high tone of moral
uprightness while the puppet Arab League puts its ugly stamp to make it look
like an Arab affair. A useful idiot is needed, of course, and Mustafa
`Abdul-Al-Jalil is perfect for the role and he has been so chummy with Saudi
propaganda as of late. Obama has modified Bush's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan:
not only maintaining the occupations but guaranteeing long-term presence in both
countries. He has also started a war in Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen where the
US is a major force in the war there. Western enthusiasm for intervention in
Libya has never even been explained: why the hundreds of deaths in Egypt or
Tunisia did not warrant any condemnation (the State Department did manage to
condemn the protesters in Egypt, lest we forget too soon)? Israel manages to
kill far more than Qadhdhafi and in shorter periods of time, and we never
encounter the "humanitarian" impulse of Western governments there. Western
military intervention in Libya is far more dangerous: it is intended to
legitimize the return of colonial powers to our region and 2) perhaps as
importantly to abort democratic uprisings all over the region. Bahrain of today
is the vision for Libya of tomorrow, as far as the West is concerned.
Posted by As'ad at 6:59 PM 03/19/11
http://angryarab.net/2011/03/19/bush-doctrine-revised-obama-puts-his-stamp/
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