The United States cannot deviate from the criminal course of empire because this is the course required by its internal class dynamic. Meanwhile top think-tank advisors to the empire (and sure to be relied on for opinion by the American media) strain their pretty heads trying to figure out “why they hate us” and how we can find a way to “de-radicalize extremists…”
July 1st, 2011
by William Blum
www.killinghope.org
Libya: Unending American hostility
Alain Juppé, front man for France and NATO, and fig leaf for Obama's war. The cast of criminals doesn't stop there, of course. Other Western powers are also involved.
If I could publicly ask our beloved president one question, it would be this: “Mr. President, in your short time in office you’ve waged war against six countries — Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen and Libya. This makes me wonder something. With all due respect: What is wrong with you?
The American media has done its best to dismiss or ignore Libyan charges that NATO/US missiles have been killing civilians (the people they’re supposedly protecting), at least up until the recent bombing “error” that was too blatant to be covered up. But who in the mainstream media has questioned the NATO/US charges that Libya was targeting and “massacring” Libyan civilians a few months ago, which, we’ve been told, is the reason for the Western powers attacks? Don’t look to Al Jazeera for such questioning. The government of Qatar, which owns the station, has a deep-seated animosity toward Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and was itself a leading purveyor of the Libyan “massacre” stories, as well as playing a military role in the war against Tripoli. Al Jazeera’s reporting on the subject has been so disgraceful I’ve stopped looking at the station.
