Oil

So, Gaddafi got mad, because despite the massive amounts of oil they sell, they are still broke. The people of Libya (with plenty of funds and nudging from the CIA and Saudi Arabia) are getting the idea that they are destitute entirely because of Gaddafi. Gaddafi is saying to his people, no you don't understand i have been getting bitch slapped by the West for forever. He's saying, it's not me, it's them.
Say what you will about the guy, but he's right. You think once we kill him, and a couple hundred thousand civilians, we are going to install some virtuous leader, who then nationalizes his countries oil, thus bringing the people of Libya out of squalor? Is anyone anymore so naive to think that we would spend billions and kill civilians in order to improve that quality of life of Libyan civilians?
I feel like the American public actually believe that you can save a country by bombing it. I'm surprised that we didn't try to nuke New Orleans in an effort to save it so many years ago.
SO much Goddamn violence, fucking end times mother fuckers. Makes me want to start a fucking stupid punk band.
Have the rich just got this?
Seems like it.
They literally have been doing the same shit for a century and it seems very likely that the rich white man will continue to confuse and mislead and kill the brown and black third world until every last drop of oil is sucked from the sand beneath their starving rotting feet.
You can't blame the rebels. They are starving and so when someone tells them it's Gaddafi's fault, they have to listen. At least they feel like they can go after him. Whereas when Gaddafi retorts, it's the fault of the West, what the fuck are a bunch of starving fifteen year old kids to do, arm up with a fucking AK and storm the white house? So the people are fucked either way, fighting a war they can't win and arn't meant to win, being used by the empire simply to replace their leader with one that will continue to stomp all over them. A leader that will keep them down and bow down to the west at the same time. A leader that will be tossed the bones and scraps of his broken country and told to just keep those assholes in their place.
And here i am blogging about it to the choir. Screaming into an empty bucket, in a locked closet, sound proofed and buried underground or launched into the vacuum of space where the sound of my voice doesn't even exist. A hospital of children is burning. 18 American veterans will kill themselves today and the day after and everyday until these wars stop, they seem to collectively be stuck on the number 18 as it is also the age in which their lives were taken and sacrificed for the sexual and material gain of an old white man they'll never know. The rebels will be lead into battles with their brothers and abandoned to die for nothing.
And at the same time an oil man is trying to decide if he should buy a Jet-boat or just another wave runner for his summer cabin. He will think about it for just a moment before purchasing both toys, satisfied with his decision.

Libya

Sometimes i just get baffled. Four wars. People who support the military don't like to think of what's going on in Libya as war. The proud patriots will say something like, "This is just rebel air support!" Civilians are already dying. Blown up little kids don't care if the bombs that fell on their hospital bed were dropped in an effort to take out some government, they don't care about the rebels, they don't care that the CIA with the help of Saudi Arabia fueled this fire, created unrest, armed these people, funded this conflict, then claimed to have nothing to do with it, and claimed that the only way to stop this violence is by sending in war planes to blow up the place. Dead kids don't give a shit about that shit.
The CIA has been doing this since the 1950's. When they want something from another country, first they try to bribe said leader. IF that doesn't work, they try to kill the leader. IF they can't kill him, then they go in, make it look like the country is going nuts with rebellion (which they fund and create) then they send in war planes and blow the whole place to hell. Then they step through the rubble and the bodies take all the oil and resources for free. The rebels, the civilians, who ever survives will in the end be left to clean up the mess and blamed for the whole ordeal.
But lets say you don't buy that shit. Let's say you haven't read anything on the CIA and you haven't heard of Chomsky or whatever and you honestly still think they are nice and cool. Let's say you think that America is really just honestly and nicely trying to help honest rebel forces fight the evil empire.
So who are we supporting then? Who are these rebels? What do they want? What do they support? Who is their leader? What sort of government are they planning on setting up? I'm not saying they are going to be way worse than the current regime, but why on earth are we willing to kill for this rogue group of street warriors? Unless of course we want to lead a coup and set up one of these warriors as our own little American puppet dude, who will rule over his people with an iron fist and keep them poor while living a robust American funded life of luxury and in exchange giving us all of their resources for free (because we won't have to pay the pesky little civilians! FUck em!)
During Vietnam, we had this little side project going in a little place called Cambodia. We decided, hey let's arm and fund and give air support to group of revolutionary's led by a guy named Saloth Sar (or maybe you know him better as Pol Pot) anyway, he and his group of merry rebels were fighting the powers that be, and we offered our help, and with our help he won and decided to cleanse the country and slaughtered 2.5 million people in death camps.
Is that what is going to happen to Libya? Probably not. Maybe. Most likely we will bomb the fuck out of them, leave them in a state of chaos, take control of their resources and do the same to Syria. Oh yeah, by the way, Syria is next.

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