Bin Laden

[Richard Fiero]

Richard Ryan wrote:
>Want to make sure I understand:  you think the Libyan rebels would be
>better off if they "put down their weapons and went home"?
>
>On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Richard Fiero <rfiero at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Anecdotally we see that the results of the peaceful Egyptian 
> revolution were
> > far more successful than the Libyan uprising where peace could be achieved
> > by the rebels putting down their weapons and going home.
> >

I get my journalism from television but I tend to turn it around in 
good Marxian tradition. What if the Libyan fuss is a civil war 
between Eastern and Western Libya? What if the US and its pals would 
like to split Libya into two sections say like North and South 
Vietnam? If that were to happen then AFRICOM could move into Eastern 
Libya. AFRICOM and its 1500 military planners are headquartered in 
Germany because there is not an African nation that will let it on 
the continent.
AFRICOM http://www.africom.mil/
General Ham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_F._Ham
General Ham recently appeared before a Senate committee where he was 
interviewed. Being new on the job he didn't really know much relevant 
information but when asked if the Chinese were present in Africa he 
did know a great deal about that, his face brightening considerably.
More to the point of Richard's remark, peaceful protests appear to be 
more successful than direct attacks on the governments in power, even 
with the continuing US encouragement of every friendly dictator 
unless they fuck up and let the oil get shut off.
If one's preference is to believe the news, I can see how they might 
believe that Libya is a potential bloodbath for the oppressed. They 
might also think that bin Laden's death is not a piece of high theater.

 From that crappy piece of fiction, VL:
"Weed, how about picking up the gun? We know it's supposed to be 
wrong, but we don't know why." Once he would have proclaimed, 
"Because in this country nobody in power gives a shit about any human 
life but their own. This forces us to be humane - to attack what 
matters more than life to the regime and those it serves, their money 
and their property." But these days he was saying, "It's wrong 
because if you pick up a rifle, the Man picks up a machine gun, by 
the time you find some machine gun he's all set up to shoot rockets, 
begin to see a pattern?"