How quickly we forget

With our allies the Saudi Rulers (and other financiers in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), WE CREATED AL QAEDA. We began creating Al Qaeda under a Democratic President (Carter) and continued under a Republican (Reagan).

Now are we doing it again, under Obama, in Libya, by encouraging, arming and now funding sincere militant Islamic rebellion?

John Brennan yesterday that he hoped the death of bin Laden would de-fuse the notion that political objectives should be achieved through MILITANCY. But that is EXACTLY the fuse we lit and the flames we fan by our military support for the militant factions in Libya.

Like the Afghan mujahideen, their cause might be just, their spiritual and ideological devotions sincere, but they brought to their struggle an intense militancy that undermines the kind of dialog, compromise and inclusion that in our modern world makes for a good society.

And, again, the West with their Oil Potentate allies, are using these sincere people for their own purposes, and will deliver to them the terrible social consequences of a bloody civil war. In this war, we are not risking our lives, but we are systematically destroying their society.

John Brennan and others in Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism strongly advised the President against the current course in Libya. Lets hope our President keeps an open ear to this advice now our rebels are call for the big bucks.


http://www.undpi.org/Lybia-March-2011/LIBYA-REBELS-WANT-3-BILLION-DOLLAR-LOAN.html

http://www.ansamed.it/en/news/ME.XEF45382.html

LIBYA: REBELS WANT 3 BILLION DOLLAR LOAN

(ANSAmed) - BENGHAZI (LIBYA), MAY 3 - Libyan rebels have today warned that their economy could collapse in the next few months if France, Italy and the United States do not provide loans worth three billion dollars guaranteed by the frozen funds of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
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"I think that if we can obtain credit lines from our friends in France, Italy and the United States, we will be fine," he said in Benghazi, adding that the rebel movement needed "two or three billion dollars". Tarhouni said that the rebels had struck a deal with foreign powers, with whom they will hold talks next Thursday in Rome as part of a meeting of the contact group, over the launch of the mechanism of opening credit lines.