Dear Raju
Thank you for your message!
The general lack of debate around western intervention in Libya is appalling and
so is the assumption that UN interventions coincide with heavy shellings on
countries that need "liberation"
I have been living and teaching for two years in northern Iraq and I have had
the opportunity to see what is the role of western economic powers when a woar
is supposedly over.
I think there is a serious reflection that needs to be made not only on the
relation between "liberation" and oil, but also on the possible benefits and
implications of western countries in post-conflict reconstruction.
Best
francesca
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From: Raju Das <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sun, 20 March, 2011 4:30:00
Subject: Re: Western-imperialist attack on Libya
The military assault on Libyawhich has just started is another
bloody, western imperialist war of aggression against a poor country, a
former colony.
Apparently western governments want to protect Libya’s civilians. It is
as if other governments are not killing civilians in the region. How
hypocritical.
The war is more about the control over oil and stopping the
rebellion of workers and younger people in the region from being
more radical and anti-systemic. The war is about a regime change: to
create a new regime that will be deferential to oil companies and
western imperialist states more than the current one.
Also: what better way to divert attention from western
governments’ attack on the political and economic rights of their own people,
thousands of whom languish in jails, than to start another war? The
governments launching the assault on Libyahave been saying that
they do not have money for education and health care, etc., but how
are they finding the money to support a war now. Liars.
The military attack on Libya proves the theory of endless war in the
age of new imperialism. The question is: what is to be done?
Raju J Das
York University, Toronto
