Operating from concepts that their economic systems solicit and have less significance to nations who lack industrialization, the western powers carelessly attempt to impose political arrangements and social values on contrary systems -- similar to bringing tomato plants to the Eskimo for planting. Industrialization seeks free labor and free labor requires political democracy. It does not work in reverse. Beneficial institutions for the highly industrialized western economies do not suffice for single resource (or resource limited), agriculture lacking and water scarce nations Democratic concepts, as defined by western nations, are sometimes redefined and overshadowed by the immediate need for jobs, dignity, education, organization, stability, more equal distribution of a sparse wealth, and less corruption in other nations.
According to United Nations statistics, the Libyans have advanced advantages in education and health care. The nation was relatively stable and, as it recovered from years of sanctions and Gadhafi's challenging misadventures, the country, slowly moved to resolve other problems. If history is a predictor of itself, the civil war and NATO attacks will only bring decades of struggle, death, and anguish to the Libyan people.
Since the year 2003, when the international community welcomed Colonel Gadhafi's nation into the world community, Libya has been received with the same courtesy as other oil producing nations -- its revenue invested in western enterprises, foreign corporations constructing Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya's infrastructure. In a few weeks of February and March 2011, everything changed. Why?
The excuse was that leader Gadhafi intended to liquidate at least 100,000 of his opponents, a 100 times exaggeration and an obvious impossibility.
According to President Barack Obama, "Gaddafi declared
that he would show "no mercy" to his own people. He compared them to rats, and
threatened to go door to door to inflict punishment  ."
Reuters reported large differences between Gadhafi's
remarks and President Obama's rendition: Gaddafi Tells Rebel City, Benghazi, 'We Will
Show No Mercy,' March 17,
2011.
"Muammar Gaddafi told Libyan rebels on Thursday his armed
forces were coming to their capital Benghazi tonight and would not show any
mercy to fighters who resisted them. In a radio address, he told Benghazi
residents that soldiers would search every house in the city and people who had
no arms had no reason to fear. He also told his troops not to pursue any rebels
who drop their guns and flee when government forces reach the
city."
Logic tells us that few
Benghazi residents could even have guns to hide and Gadhafi's forces were too
limited to carry out any large scale purge, Gadhafi's comment (much different
than Obama's presentation) was only meant to create a fear. No leader would tell
his people he intended to kill masses of them. If so, they had nothing to lose
by fighting. Why encourage them? Nonsense!
The next morsel of food for thought relies on the fact that the
civil war was no threat to any NATO nation. The clincher -- the western nations had not
considered any changes in Libya's future. Suddenly, with no plan, no knowledge
of the rebel forces constituency, and no idea as to where the interference would
lead, NATO attacks Libya.
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