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In other words, Gaddafi played ball economically, but not militarily. However, according to The New York Times:
After 9/11, "he reportedly shared his intelligence files on Al Qaeda with the United States to aid in the hunt for its international operatives. He had also cooperated with (America) and Europe on nuclear weapons, terrorism and immigration issues."
Petras calls war on Gaddafi "part of a more general counter-attack in response to the most recent Arab popular pro-democracy movements," ones Washington will go to great lengths to quash, wanting puppet regional leaders serving Western interests, none even partly independent like Gaddafi.
Immanuel Wallerstein agrees, saying the Libyan conflict "wan(s) to slow down, channel, co-opt, (and) limit the second Arab revolt and prevent it from changing the basic political realities of the Arab world and its role in the geopolitics of the world-system."
Nonetheless, he calls the outcome uncertain. "It will probably be a morass." It may or may not quell Arab uprisings or oust Gaddafi. "We don't know yet, (and if he goes), what will succeed him?" Overall, he says US intervention "is a mistake....It won't end soon....It's a terrible, ominous, and ultimately self-defeating proposition." Given Washington's quagmires in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan alone, who can disagree.
A Final Comment on Justice Richard Goldstone's Sellout to the Israeli Lobby
A previous article said he softened his criticism of Israel's Gaza terror war - Operation Cast Lead. Apparently he was either bribed, co-opted, or bullied to do it, despite clear evidence his commission, others, and numerous human rights organizations revealed - unequivocally detailing extensive Israeli crimes of war and against humanity. Access the article through the following link:
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