ANTIWAR

French Rafale jets were among the first waves of attack planes unleashed by the coalition. Sarkozy wanted to showcase the fighter-bomber abilities to probable buyers in the region.

Beginning March 19, it was visible. However, months of planning preceded it, including US and UK special forces and intelligence operatives on the ground enlisting, inciting, funding, arming and supporting violent insurrection to oust Gaddafi and replace him with a Washington-controlled puppet like in Iraq,  Afghanistan and elsewhere.

The script is familiar, playing out now in Libya – full-scale “imperial barbarism,” a term James Petras used in a September 2010 article titled, “Imperialism and Imperial Barbarism,” saying:

“The organizing principle of imperial barbarism is the idea of total war,” including:

• use of mass destruction weapons, unleashed on Libya as explained below;
• targeting the entire country and society; and
• dismantling “the entire civil and military apparatus of the state,” replacing it with “colonial officials, paid mercenaries and unscrupulous and corrupt satraps” – puppets, figures As’ad AbuKhalil calls “useful idiots.”