"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer" seems to be the working model here, but in doing so we will, once again end up with a very different "enemy" than we started with. By backing the opponents of Gaddafi who ostensibly are fighting for democracy and a secular Libya, we will have, at the beginning a governmental organization which pledges reforms, including voting and a legislative body similar to the West. After some time, maybe up to two years the real political Islam will show it's ugly head, and by that time we in the West will have convinced ourselves that democracy worked, and we can all go home now.
Using the Saudis as our arms shill fools no one. We pretend they are our friends, and expect them to act accordingly. They know they are our enemies, but play the game well enough to get along. It is a vicious Passion Play in which the actors believe the other wants to kill them, yet sharpens the blade for the other because it is claimed it is needed for slaughtering animals.
Obama is trying to support the lesser of two evils. He will find out that the lesser is in reality the greater evil, but it will be too late.
From The Independant March 7 by Robert Fisk
Using the Saudis as our arms shill fools no one. We pretend they are our friends, and expect them to act accordingly. They know they are our enemies, but play the game well enough to get along. It is a vicious Passion Play in which the actors believe the other wants to kill them, yet sharpens the blade for the other because it is claimed it is needed for slaughtering animals.
Obama is trying to support the lesser of two evils. He will find out that the lesser is in reality the greater evil, but it will be too late.
From The Independant March 7 by Robert Fisk
America's secret plan to arm Libya's rebels
Desperate to avoid US military involvement in Libya in the event of a prolonged struggle between the Gaddafi regime and its opponents, the Americans have asked Saudi Arabia if it can supply weapons to the rebels in Benghazi. The Saudi Kingdom, already facing a "day of rage" from its 10 per cent Shia Muslim community on Friday, with a ban on all demonstrations, has so far failed to respond to Washington's highly classified request, although King Abdullah personally loathes the Libyan leader, who tried to assassinate him just over a year ago.
Washington's request is in line with other US military co-operation with the Saudis. The royal family in Jeddah, which was deeply involved in the Contra scandal during the Reagan administration, gave immediate support to American efforts to arm guerrillas fighting the Soviet army in Afghanistan in 1980 and later – to America's chagrin – also funded and armed the Taliban.
But the Saudis remain the only US Arab ally strategically placed and capable of furnishing weapons to the guerrillas of Libya. Their assistance would allow Washington to disclaim any military involvement in the supply chain – even though the arms would be American and paid for by the Saudis.
Some of those weapons and explosives will end up being used against American and other soldiers, non-Muslims, and those considered not Muslim enough.
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