It is hard to conceive of whatever new government may emerge in Libya turning out as anything other than a U.S./NATO puppet, as Obama’s statement of Tuesday makes almost explicitly clear:
For many months, the TNC [Transitional National Council] has been working with the international community to prepare for a post-Gadhafi Libya. As those efforts proceed, our diplomats will work with the TNC as they ensure that the institutions of the Libyan state are protected, and we will support them with the assets of the Gadhafi regime that were frozen earlier this year. Above all, we will call for an inclusive transition that leads to a democratic Libya.
A “democratic Libya” that will of course, at some nebulous time in the future, hold elections under U.S. supervision. Elections controlled and manipulated by money—just like those in the America. And when the elections are over? The Libyan people, despite the oil wealth of their homeland, will lose their free health care and their near-free education, as unemployment rises and poverty grows. These of course are the same conditions that prevail in all countries whose governments follow the directives of the IMF and Wall Street. Do the people waving the Libyan “revolutionary” flags in the photos and videos we’ve seen really not know who they’re working for? Perhaps not. The devil, of course, is a master of disguises, waging war by way of deception.
The puppet leaders of this government will of course be drawn from the absolute lowest dregs of society, for these are the elements the U.S. always works with when destabilizing nations and overthrowing independent governments. Of course. Who else would cooperate in a treasonous enterprise against their own people? Only the criminally amoral. These, I feel, are the class who by and large make up the leadership of the Libyan “rebels,” and it is this same class of people who no doubt will be in the new puppet government. But it would be well for our putative “freedom fighters” to remember an age-old axiom: once you make a deal with the devil, you become the devil’s slave.
Question: What do Manuel Noriega, Saddam Hussein, Hosni Mubarak, and Muammar Qaddafi have in common? Answer: Each saw an opportunity, each made their deals with the devil (the U.S. empire), and each ended up paying a price for it. Perhaps it never even occurred to Qaddafi when, back in 2004, he made his pact with the West, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Condoleezza Rice and Tony Blair, that he would end up being treated so treacherously. Who woulda ever thought? But of course this is how the devil operates. You are kept around as long as you are useful, and then, despite any illusions of “friendship” you thought you may have had, you are summarily disposed of when it becomes convenient. The same thing will eventually happen to the new leaders in Libya, for what is demanded of slaves is always nothing less than unfailing obedience.
And what of the Palestinian Authority? How did making a deal with the devil turn out for them? Not very well as we can see.
The lesson to be learned? The way to handle evil is to resist it, not compromise with it. It’s a hard lesson, though. And humanity seems to have a very difficult time learning it. But the time is coming when it will catch on, for human consciousness is much like a metabolism: it is ever evolving.
And so the devil conquers another Muslim nation. But as he found out in Iraq and Afghanistan, the easy part of subjugating other peoples and their homelands is the initial conquest; occupying a country and maintaining order over the long term are much more difficult. And the more harried the devil becomes, the more imperious and exacting will grow his behavior toward his slaves. And you know something else? The devil knows his empire is slipping. This is good in some respects, but it also poses a grave danger, for at some point we can probably expect him to lash out blindly. The plight of Libya’s new “leaders” will therefore not be an easy one. You could almost feel sorry for them. A lone canoeist on a raging river they will very much become. The more they cooperate with their master, the more they will be despised by their own people—for good people will always resist evil, and there “will be no day when the dove loves the raven.”
River to Sea
Uprooted Palestinian
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