NATO brings death to Libya a decade after its barbaric intervention
If the country’s infrastructure hadn’t been destroyed in the bombings of 2011, the dams may have held
Eva Bartlett is a Canadian independent journalist. She has spent years on the ground covering conflict zones in the Middle East, especially in Syria and Palestine (where she lived for nearly four years).
People walk past the body of a flash flood victim in Derna, eastern Libya, on September 11, 2023 © AFP
Just over a decade ago, Libya was in the news, with Western leadership celebrating the murder of Muammar Gaddafi, following a months-long NATO bombing campaign, all in the name of protecting the Libyan people. Now, the destroyed North-African country is back in the news after a devastating hurricane and flooding.
Hurricane Daniel hit northeastern Libya on September 10. Subsequent extreme flooding has caused the deaths of a reported 3,252 people, according to Libya’s health ministry as of September 17, with the UN reporting that almost three times more may have died. Following the collapse of two dams, the city of Derna bore the brunt of the disaster. Another 40,000 people are reportedly displaced.
Many of the same Western leaders who brought about Libya's demise are now feigning concern for the people of the country they destroyed in 2011, and where they set the stage for an ensuing decade of chaos.
(리비아의 재난에 가장 앞장서서 쌩 지뤌을 떨고 잇는 사람은 버락 오바마 입니다....
오마마가 리비아를 파괴하지 않앗다면...이런 재난도 일어나지 않앗겟지요..
삼성과 강남만을 위해 죽을 힘을 썻던 노무현과 그 졸개들이 서민들 걱정 해 주는 것과 같은 구역질이지요....
이런 쐣끼들 눙깔엔 사람들이 다 개 돼야쥐 쥐쇄끼때들로 보이는가 봐.......
처 먹은 뇌물이 뽀록나 억울하게 돌아가쉰 우리 갱상도 교주님만 존나 보고 싶다...취지지ㅣ지지직 거러되는 .....쥐쇄끼들로만 보는 것이지)
Most notable is Barack Obama, whose foundation is raising money for Libya relief efforts. That’s very benevolent of him – might not have been necessary if NATO hadn't destroyed its infrastructure. It was, after all, Obama’s then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who cackled gleefully, “We came, we saw, he died,”of the sodomizing and killing of Gaddafi.
(왓노라 보앗노라 죽엿노라........힐라리 클린턴
아마도 힐라리는 되질때 까지 자신이 악악거렷던 이 말의 저주에서 빠져 나올수 없을 것입니다..
노동자들의 줄 이은 자살을 두고.....대통령이엇엇던 노무현은 씨불 거렷지요.
-자살 따위로 목적을 이루려 하지 말라...그런 시대는 이미 지낫다....
이런 패륜적 망발은 결국 자신의 업보로 되 돌아 왓습니다...
죽은 자는 말이 없습니다.....그가 자살 따위로 무엇을 이루려 햇는지는 살아 잇는 우리로는 알 수 없습니다.
다른소린 죽어서 지옥에 갈 것이라고 햇지요??
천당 안 갑니다...그곳에 노무현은 없을 것이기 때문에....
기어코 지옥에 가서 ...노무현의 멱살을 잡고 물어 보려 합니다..
-너...대체 왜 그랫냐 고...
뱉은 말은 반드시 되 돌아 옵니다..
정치인들은 ...이런 쉬운 원리를 너무 모릅니다..
특히 똑똑한척 하는 정치인들 일 수록 ...자신이 뭔 말을 씨불리고 잇는지 알지 못 합니다..
노무현과 꼭 같은 길을 가고 잇는 노무현교 졸개들의 모습을 보고 잇노라면...그냥 끔찍합니다..
증말 소름끼치게 싫어요..
NATO set the stage for Libya's current crisis
Only Western leadership and corporate media would have the audacity to not only pretend the 2011 bombing campaign never happened, but to blame Libya for the rupture of the dams near Derna.
(한 마디로 개 쐣끼들이지요...
노무현교 졸개들이 노무현이 받아 처 먹은 뇌물에 대해서는 절대적으로 아닥 하고.. 오로지 검찰의 과잉 수사로 지들 교주가 억울하게 되졋 다는 것만 씨불되는 것과 같지요..
야들은 손 바닥으로 태양이 가려질 수 잇다고 생각 합니다.............
삶은 돼야지 돼가리가 벌떡 일러나 웃을 일 입니다..)
The Washington Post did just that, stating, “The volatility of recent years meant the country’s separate regimes and their feckless officials have left critical infrastructure in a state of neglect.” This included the dams, which, it wrote, experts warned could soon fail. While it did briefly mention the extended NATO bombing of Libya, the thrust of its article was to absolve NATO nations of responsibility.
More honest reporting in Media Lens pointed out that those dams in 2007 began undergoing maintenance—which was interrupted precisely due to the West's so-called humanitarian intervention. “These dams were built in the 1970s to protect the local population. A Turkish firm had been contracted in 2007 to maintain the dams. This work stopped after NATO’s 2011 bombing campaign. The Turkish firm left the country, their machinery was stolen and all work on the dams ended.”
The same article highlighted what nearly all Western corporate media obfuscated: That, prior to NATO’s war against Libya, it had been “one of Africa’s most advanced countries for health care and education,” which it ceased to be when NATO destroyed it.
(이런 것은 인륜범죄입니다..
그들 미제 도적때들은 항상 민주주의와 인권을 앞세워 ....이런 비 인륜적인 파괴 전쟁을 해 왓습니다..
힐라리 클린턴은 ....가다피의 사망에 대해 ....이젠 리비아인들도 민주주의를 향유 할 수 잇게 되엇다.....며....붉은 핏빛 루스로 번들 거리는 입술을 놀려 씨불 거렷지요..
Death-toll estimates for the 2011 Libyan war and NATO intervention vary widely, with some researchers placing it at over 20,000, hundreds of them civilians killed in NATO airstrikes. What’s worse, having deposed (and, indirectly, killed) Gaddafi, the Western powers created a power vacuum and triggered years of infighting that plunged the country into chaos and left key infrastructure – a lot of which was already damaged or destroyed by those same airstrikes – in disrepair and requiring maintenance.
이것이 이번 리비아 비극의 직접적인 원인입니다.....
민주주의와 인권을 앞세워 파괴 전쟁을 벌렷고 사회 인프라를 파괴하고 보수 할 수 없게 내 버려진 상태에서 허리케인이 닥친 것이고...예상 햇던 대로 댐은 붕괴 되엇고...한 도시가 쓸려 나갓습니다..
이젠 그들이 누구 보다도 앞장서 또 다시 휴머니즘을 아갈 거리며 ..온갖 구역질 나는 쇼질을 처 하고 잇습니다......
지겨워............증말 지겨워,,,
Now, perhaps in an effort to whitewash its crimes against the Libyan people, the US said it will send $11 million in humanitarian assistance(증말 구역질 나는 단어....사람들이 너무 뻔뻔해) to Libya, which, in contrast to the $1.65 billion the US reportedly spent destroying Libya in 2011, is peanuts. Insult upon injury.
Typical propaganda
Canadian lawyer and journalist Dimitri Lascaris pointed out that Canada spent just shy of $350 million “to participate in NATO's destruction of Libya” and will now spend “a paltry $5 million to aid Libyans in their moment of dire need.”
The hypocrisy of NATO member states is entirely expected and not at all surprising. However, Canadian journalist Yves Engler explained why Western corporate media has largely omitted mention, much less serious emphasis, of NATO's destruction of Libya.(노무현교 도적때들이 지들 교주 부정한 자금에 대해서는 철쩌하게 아닥 해 버리는 이유와 꼭 같지요...그 말을 햇다간 교주님 사마니즘을 키워 나갈 수 가 없게 됩니다.....그런데....이런 눈가리고 아웅질이 약발을 받을 까요??)
“To maintain public support for NATO’s proxy war with Russia, it’s important to erase its history of violence. The Canadian media’s refusal to mention NATO’s role in Libya’s instability partly reflects the requirements of Ukraine propaganda.”
Engler noted that Canadian media has done exactly this, whited-out NATO’s role in Libya. Particularly bold-faced is the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) which, Engler wrote, did a ten-minute-long report basically blaming Libya and failing “to even mention NATO’s six-month war, which included Canadian fighter jets, naval vessels and special forces.”
Engler explains why global media and public figures have written NATO out of current reporting on Libya. “We’ve been bombarded with the claim NATO is a defensive alliance representing no threat to anyone. Repeated endlessly over the past 20 months, media personalities from Andrew Chang to Geoffrey York don’t dare mention NATO’s role in destroying Libya.”
Maintaining the “defensive alliance” myth goes hand in hand with propaganda supporting the proxy war in Ukraine: that Russia’s military operation there was an act of ‘unprovoked aggression’ and that Western powers hadn’t been aiding and abetting Kiev in its war against the people of Donbass in an effort to turn the country into a staging ground against Russia.
In the end, the Wests' wars are never, ever, about protecting the population in question, much less “bringing democracy” to the countries targeted. Just look at Iraq, Libya, Syria...or Ukraine.
이는 절대 철칙입니다..
이것이 서구 민주주의의 본질이고...서구 제국주의의 파괴성과 이율배반이지요..
노무현교 미친개들이 삼성과 강남의 존만 존나 처 빨앗던 교주 노무현을 기어코 서민 교주님으로 둔갑 시켜내는 원리와 같습니다.
거대한 유령이 한 반도를 유형하고 잇습니다..
이 유령은 극악 스럽게도 민주주의와 진보와 서민이라는 거죽을 쓰고 잇습니다.
이 유령은 박정희 유령이나 전두환 유령과도 다르고....정말로 끔찍하고 소름끼치는 유령입니다.