Saturday, March 19, 2011
Battle for Benghazi
The situation appears very grim for the citizens of the ‘rebel’–held Benghazi.
The pack of hyenas appear to descend on another Arab/Muslim oil country to continue their serial crimes against people, who do not see eye to eye with them and are not prepared to accept their dictates.
While Obama/Cameron/Sarkozy had done their best to instigate people’s revolution in Tunisia and Egypt without violence and bloodshed seeping in. The strong Western media blitz against any bloody reprisal by Ben Ali and Mubarak, could not however, be repeated in Qaddafi’s Libya. They have misjudged Qaddafi, the composition of his support in his country, his resolve to take on the West, fully realizing the real nature of their objectives of regime change in the Arab World. Qaddafi has correctly judged that people and rulers of US/EU/Israel were so war-weary to make a major war risk by invading Libya. The swiftness with which Qaddafi moved against the rebels and took back control of major centers across from Tripoli to the very gates of Benghazi, caught the Western warmongers by surprise. Obama and his defense secretary Robert Gates openly and publicly declared their unwillingness to once again get involved in any misadventure that will reaffirm image of America, as a permanent enemy of Arab/Muslim world. They, however, under pressure from Jewish lobby that is after Qaddafi’s blood for a long time were willing to permit the two Jewish leaders of UK and France, to try their luck. The danger of human tragedy confronting Benghazi’s rebels was all too real, as Qaddafi had declared he will hunt them down house to house, room to room --- possibly carried away in his Arab poetic harangue. Saving the defeated rebels from human massacre at the hand of Qaddafi’s forces, was a natural reaction of the world this time, including major countries other than the usual ‘international community’ (a permanent misnomer pushed all the time by CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera). A big wrangle at UN Security Council found 5 out of 15 members absenting from the ‘no-fly zone’ resolution with an array of conditionalities which may or may not hamper France and UK in crippling Qaddafi onslaught on Benghazi. Their perfidious actions in war and use of their armed power in vaguely defined general terms allowed by UN, would leave nobody in doubt that they will try to take every advantage to frustrate Qaddafi getting a clear victory over his country.
For Qaddafi, this is his first war and till now he has been a very astute strategist. He has personal equation with all US/UK/France leaders and knows their weak points. If the stalemate drags on, he may find other ways to damage the western leaders through revolt by their own people. The more pronounced actions by UK and France, the more the entire episode will turn out to be a West against Arab/Muslim and Third World scenario. Even in the battle field scenario, the rebels were no match to him and his forces. If Western forces land their troops on Libyan soil, they may not necessarily find the terrain very friendly.
The shameful action that Arab Union, under strong pressure from the West, has taken in supporting the Western neo-colonizers will haunt and discredit them for a long time. The Arab people have no soft spot for US/UK/France/Israel axis and the disruptions by the recent serialized people’s revolutions in country after country in the Middle East, will expose the role of the enemy West, which is relentlessly trying to sow divisions and inflicts conspiracies to increase its leverages in their victim countries.
It is now for the neutralists from the 5 nations that abstained from the UN resolution --- Russia, China, India, Brazil --- to formulate policies to defang the scourge of notorious mafia of Western nations, that had made it their business to interfere in the internal affairs of UN member nations, with declared objective of illegal “Regime Change’, to carry out their hegemonic agenda against weak and indefensible. It can now be clear to rest of the world, why Qaddafi was trying to acquire nuclear arms.
Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai
