Lib you and me both know why this had to happen, Obama stabbed Ghaddafi in the back when he told him he needed to step down, he basically sided with the rebels when he did that. Ghaddafi even said the only western nation that would be allowed back into Libya after this is done is Germany because they opposed the no fly zone, basically the years of work getting Libya to dismantle their WMD program and giving us access to their oil would be ruined, Ghaddafi has to go if we want to get in on those juicy multi billion dollar oil contracts.
Therein lies the rub. Talk Radio Americans haven't studied enough history to understand why superpowers intervene in foreign affairs - this makes them dupes of big government misinformation.
Official Government Story: "Humanitarian Intervention".... Or the Reagan/Bush favorite "Evil Empire/Evil Doer... Freedom is on the march"
Reality: Post-colonial imperialism > the ruling superpower "and its capitalist elites no longer assume the economic, cultural, and diplomatic costs of governing the country". The technics of empire is much more efficient. We use a network of bases to control vital resource markets - and we attempt to avoid the bulky and expensive demands of direct occupation. We don't have the money or time to worry about what evil dictators do to their own people. In fact, when Hussein became useful to our energy needs (because we lost the Shaw in neighboring Iran), Reagan & HWB had no qualms supporting him during some of his worst atrocities. Reagan removed Saddam and Iraq from the list of terrorist nations, i.e., our energy needs have always trumped our Humanitarian press clippings.
Our leaders must often form sketchy alliances in dangerous places. When necessecary, we protect and enrich corruptible dictators so they will allow our transnationals to usurp their people's resources. And don't give me some high school gibberish about how we supply the capital and they supply the resource, as if the world neatly divided itself into harmonious relationships. Life is a jungle. Superpowers have always spilled blood in the global competition for limited resources. And they have always protected the women, children, and Republicans from learning about the evil men must sometimes do in the outlying colonies.
The reason the official story works is because many Republicans trust their pundits, and they trust the Big Government war narrative. The Left, at least in the old days, was not so easily duped by bureaucrats - see LBJ and Vietnam.
The only thing we can do is keep trying to educate the naive, under-educated, patriotic "Freedom is on the march" Homelanders. As long as their knees weaken when Dear Leader says "Evil Empire", ours will be an uphill battle.
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