Libya: The French Factor

Contributor: "BeeSting"

Wow! I leave Canada for a few weeks and look what happens!

Re: Election... navigating between Charybdis and Scylla. Poor Canada.

Re: Libya... seems that one aspect of the French/US involvement has been neglected by our short-memory/attention-span/coalition-of-the willing media pundits.

See how Rick Rozoff connects some dots: Libyan War And Control Of The Mediterranean

... regarding the subsequent summit held for the purpose on July 13, 2008, "Sarkozy's big idea is to use imperial Rome's centre of the world as a unifying factor linking 44 countries that are home to 800 million people."

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, however, announced that his nation would boycott the gathering, denouncing the initiative as one aimed at dividing both Africa and the Arab world, and stating: "We shall have another Roman empire and imperialist design. There are imperialist maps and designs that we have already rolled up. We should not have them again."

... Less than three years later Sarkozy's Mirage and Rafale warplanes were bombing Libyan government targets ...

The Voltaire Network prefaces the same article with the following:

" Had Muammar Gaddafi become too pesky for the likes of Nicolas Sarkozy and his Atlanticist partners, by standing in the way of their agenda for the domination of the Mediterranean sea region? France’s direct role in nurturing the rebellion against the Libyan leader is no longer a secret. In this article, Rick Rozoff offers some additional pointers, and analyzes the Libyan war in the context of the advancing transformation of the Mediterranean into NATO’s mare nostrum."

Food for thought...

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Ed Note: Some updates on Libya:

Obama team encourages defections from Libya
(But wiley Koussa appears to have gone from the frying pan into the fire: Quote: Pamela Dix ... said if Libya was responsible for Lockerbie then Koussa was too, adding: “he should not be a free man in this country.”)

Libya rebels glad and wary of U.S. support, defection
(Gates is willing to rule out US "boots on the ground" but not CIA intervention.)

Related on YYC: Yo! Who's in charge of the new NATO leader?

REMINDER: There's a permanent STOP NATO link in the side panel. I've moved it up to the top for easy access to their updates on Libya.