THE BLOODY AND CYNICAL INTERVENTION in Libya to reestablish a relationship of colonialism in Africa—not to mention grab at gunpoint the enormous oil deposits in that region and elsewhere— is permitting glimpses behind the hypocritical mask worn by the sanctimonious leaders of the “Free World.” Here’s Clinton and Cameron gloating on the occasion of Gaddafi’s lynching. The Clinton clip is especially jarring, showing the actual face of American liberalism: comfortably ensconced in the folds of the capitalist system, insulated from real harm by many layers of power, this upper-middle-class matron, acting as if she was at some cocktail party, and surrounded by sycophants, is happy to be filling the imperial script. It’s quite obvious Clinton—after all formally a high US government official— does not mind at all the sordid death of someone Washington thought expendable. It says something about Democrats who continue to revere the Clintons as some sort of progressive duo, and the true nature of the American government.
