The United Nations approval to conduct direct military intervention in Libya by United States and other major imperialist powers under the pretence of bringing in democracy, and to protect civilian lives, is decidedly unethical.
These diplomacies for war are driven not by any intention to protect the Libyan people or to bring in democracy. The ongoing intervention in the oil-rich Libya is driven by profit interests – controlling Libya’s oil resources. The aim is to exploit the civil war in Libya, to impose a regime that does not serve the interests of the Libyan people, but the demands of US and its allies. The US hopes to use Libya, moreover, as a base of operations for quelling revolutionary movements throughout the Arab world.
The justifications given by UN and US for the Libyan intervention are full of grotesque contradictions. US, which professes to be outraged over the killing of Libyan civilians and bent on saving lives, is itself responsible for the killing of hundreds of thousands in Iraq and Afghanistan and, on the very eve of the UN vote, carried out the cold-blooded murder of some 40 civilians in a drone attack in Pakistan. And, while claiming that the intervention in Libya is needed to ensure the triumph of democracy in the region, US continue to back the regimes in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Yemen as they quell down protesters demanding change in regime. Libya seems to be another Iraq in the making. Any government coming to power under such a regime would be right-wing puppets of US and its allies, comparable to Karzai in Afghanistan or Maliki in Iraq.
Samir Khan
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