A English mea culpa, and we,
we and BHL? Manchester attack and Libya
It must have
been a landslide victory for Theresa May, who wanted to profit from the general
concern related to the Brexit to increase her majority. However, in recent
days, polls, which certainly have to be considered cautiously in England even
more than elsewhere, seemed to announce
a comeback of the Labour Party, yet taken by the disputed (by the labor
establishment) Jeremy Corbyn. One of the reasons: the Manchester bombing
highlighted even more the huge mistake that was the British and French
intervention in Libya. Indeed, the terrorist was torn between Manchester and
Libya, where his father had enlisted him at sixteen in his Islamist
anti-Gaddafi fight. In fact, a part of the Libyans in Manchester played a
significant role in the civil war of 2011 in Libya. At that time, the
(conservative) British authorities facilitated sending Islamists from
Manchester in Libya, as the father of the terrorist, thinking they constitute a
more credible alternative to Gaddafi that laics (according to Le Monde,
May 30, 2017). Brilliant idea, brilliant policy which we today see the results
It must be
said that in England, unlike France, Libyan politics had been already heavily criticized,
in 2016, by a parliamentary report lambasting British military intervention in
Libya "based on incorrect assumptions" and ill-prepared. "We
were trained by french enthusiasm", explains a parliamentarian. British
policy in Libya before and since the intervention of March 2011 was based on
"erroneous assumptions and an incomplete understanding of the country and
the situation." According to the report, the British and the French
"were blind about the significant part of the Islamists in the rebellion, and
did not anticipate that they would benefit. Parliamentarians described the
"disastrous record of intervention, designed to change a regime without
providing alternatives, which resulted in the transformation of Libya in
'failed - state' . '" "The result is a political and economic
collapse, a civil and tribal war, a
humanitarian crisis and migrations, a widespread violation of the human rights,
the spread of weapons of gadhafi in the region and the emergence of the Islamic
State in Libya", write unvarnished parliamentarians in their summary.
In addition, the report
says: "the evidence we have gathered, the threat to civilians from
Benghazi has been widely exaggerated"!
Brilliant idea, brilliant
policy ! People in charge have to be made accountable from
A mistake, a crime, an
imbecility, a policy change - Corbyn's right!
Remember
that September 15, 2011, the president of the Republic french Nicolas Sarkozy
and the British Prime Minister David Cameron, followed as their shadows by the
philosopher Bernard Henri Levy landed Benghazi cheered by a jubilant crowd. The
English, in good parliamentary Democrats were keen to make their mea culpa. And
we? Will we hear yet BHL lessons of geostrategy? A little regret? Well,
finally, with Macron, we should be rid of the brilliant philosopher and his influence.
It's
really a pure scandal and an unspeakable mess. Because finally, for the first
time, there was an agreement of the United Nation General Council, Russians
and Chinese included, for an operation limited to Benghazi to protect
people against an imminent assault and impose mediation to Gadhafi. French and
English themselves were deliberately perjuries and continued the war to provoke
the fall of Kadhafi. With the result that we know! And much worse; understandably,
Russians and Chinese well vowed that they would never do it again, and opposed
any intervention in Syria. Bravo! The Libyan shit is also responsible for the
Syrian mess and its millions of deaths. In history, this intervention in Libya
will appear as a fault and a crime, and a worse than 1956 Suez imbecility.
Another forgotten, for which some should perhaps be accountable: the
death of a french secret agent, Pierre Marziali, murdered the May
12, 2011 in Benghazi. Having rightly understood that the rebels supported by
Bernard Henri Lévy and Nicolas Sarkozy consisted of battalions of hard-core
jihadists, Marziali wanted to prevent Claude Gueant and, above all, Nicolas
Sarkozy, a friend of the Qatar,Emirate, which supported then financially and
militarily the rebels Libyans. Alain July, former Director of the DGSE
intelligence questioned by the authors of "dead for Françafrique",
by far the most credible scenario book. Excerpt: 'the katiba from 17 February
claimed the death of Marziali, however it was supported by the Qataris. That a
malicious person has a message to the guys at the katiba or the Qataris a
French was there and spying them, it is possible! Dulas and Marziali had
written a note to warn against the Islamists. Less than a month later, Marziali
is killed. In this job I'm too old to believe in coincidences. If someone
wanted to be clever by dropping the name of Marziali to Islamists, it is
already very serious. "But if this leak was organized, that the info has
been transmitted in good conscience to the katiba or its Qatari protectors, it
is even worse: it would be treason." At the very least, Marziali took high
risks to know who really were the anti-Gaddafi and let know to the French
authorities, and he lost his life for nothing. But in France, no mea culpa!
Yet
our political brilliant did not understand a few simple truths, for example
that a secular dictatorship is better than a religious dictatorship, much
better than a complete collapse. That military interventions in the Middle East
have been disastrous. It is stupid enough to be surprised and indignant because
more we're bombing the Arab Muslims, more we destroy their societies, more they
commit attacks at home. (well in cases where intervention protects a country and
its legitimate authorities against the collapse in the face of an Islamist
attack, as in Mali, it is obviously a duty to lead). That's what Jeremy Corbyn
says, presneting himself as a man of peace therefore, and he may be damned
right.
And
in France? Apart from Michel Onfray, not many people . Since there seems to be
a renewal in Politics there is, it would be good that there is also a renewal
of ideas. And a more important role for those who are opposed to the wars of
Iraq and intervention in Libya at the expense of those who supported them.
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