so all of a sudden we are going to have UK jets bombing Libya? Stopping attacks against civilians? And how exactly are they going to identify a jeep full of Gaddafi's soldiers driving along a motorway from 35,000 ft? totally pointless...
We ostracise Gaddafi's terrorist state, then, when his oil infrastructure improves and he realises just how much money he can make by towing the line a little, we let him into the international club - with no improvement in the political freedoms or lack of internal repression in the country. But he's stopped bombing airliners, which is nice and given us the guy he ordered to do it, to sit in prison. And then all of a sudden it looks like we might get a democratic, non-Islamist revolution there - whoohoo - so we jump behind that and the whole thing implodes, back to square 1. Well done us, nice consistent morals we displayed there and propped up his regime as he made a few quid from the oil in the meantime.
And what about other countries that are committing human rights abuses, which we are not hearing anything about? I don't see Cameron pushing for a no-fly zone over Yemen or Bahrain. The double standards are incredible, and yet... its probably a good thing to see. It makes you realise that the world is not a nice place and that our government, along with EVERYONE else's, is looking out for their own interests.
You won't see a similar reaction in the Gulf, with Bahrain, because it would put too much pressure on Saudi, and we need the Saudis. We need their oil and we need their Sunni stability to counterbalance the threat of Iran. And if we think Gaddafi is not a nice guy, then don't it only gets worse with the Iranians government.
If there's anything to learn from this whole fucking mess, its that if we had maintained a consistent, principled stance the whole time and continued to demand political reform and freedoms for everyone in each of the countries, through the UN, with everyone using that as the proper channel, as we're supposed to do, we probably wouldn't have such a totally screwed up situation right now. We are half to blame for this whole thing and Cameron standing up there, saying "we won't stand for this kind of thing..." is just a total load of hypocritical shit.
We ostracise Gaddafi's terrorist state, then, when his oil infrastructure improves and he realises just how much money he can make by towing the line a little, we let him into the international club - with no improvement in the political freedoms or lack of internal repression in the country. But he's stopped bombing airliners, which is nice and given us the guy he ordered to do it, to sit in prison. And then all of a sudden it looks like we might get a democratic, non-Islamist revolution there - whoohoo - so we jump behind that and the whole thing implodes, back to square 1. Well done us, nice consistent morals we displayed there and propped up his regime as he made a few quid from the oil in the meantime.
And what about other countries that are committing human rights abuses, which we are not hearing anything about? I don't see Cameron pushing for a no-fly zone over Yemen or Bahrain. The double standards are incredible, and yet... its probably a good thing to see. It makes you realise that the world is not a nice place and that our government, along with EVERYONE else's, is looking out for their own interests.
You won't see a similar reaction in the Gulf, with Bahrain, because it would put too much pressure on Saudi, and we need the Saudis. We need their oil and we need their Sunni stability to counterbalance the threat of Iran. And if we think Gaddafi is not a nice guy, then don't it only gets worse with the Iranians government.
If there's anything to learn from this whole fucking mess, its that if we had maintained a consistent, principled stance the whole time and continued to demand political reform and freedoms for everyone in each of the countries, through the UN, with everyone using that as the proper channel, as we're supposed to do, we probably wouldn't have such a totally screwed up situation right now. We are half to blame for this whole thing and Cameron standing up there, saying "we won't stand for this kind of thing..." is just a total load of hypocritical shit.
