Thursday, March 3, 2011

Why say no to intervention in Libya

Hillary Clinton, albeit ambiguously, raised the possibility of U.S. and NATO military intervention in Libya: "We will continue to explore all possible avenues for further action ... There is no imminent military action involving U.S. ships." The key words are "all" and "imminent." When it is stated that "all" options are possible it also includes the military.

And what is not "imminent" today could become tomorrow. Meanwhile, the Sixth Fleet is en route to the coast of Libya and Italy has already authorized the U.S. to use for its air base in Sigonella "purely humanitarian purposes." And you know how they end the "humanitarian purposes" operated by trigger-happy American pilots.

A U.S. military intervention, English, foreign born or still in Libya is in no way acceptable. For reasons of principle and for very specific reasons. For the principle of self-determination enshrined in Helsinki in 1975 and formally signed by almost all countries of the world. For the international law principle of "non-interference in internal affairs of other countries." And finally, because the same Libyan rioters, while in the military inferiority of the resources available to Gaddafi, said that they do not.

"It is a matter to be resolved solely between us Libyans." They understand very well that American intervention would be a way to put the hat on their revolt and do not wish to have shed their blood and paid for have to accept in the end, a "Pax Americana". It's not up to the Americans decide who is wrong and who is right in Libya.

It will be the verdict of the field, the sacrosanct verdict of the battlefield, to decide. Just as it was up to the American-Serbian conflict in Kosovo, where we compare two reasons: the independence of the Albanian and the Serbian state to maintain the integrity of its borders and sovereignty over a region, Kosovo, that in the history of that country is considered by us as the Piedmont, "the cradle of Serbian nation." The Americans decided instead that the reasons were only part of the Albanian separatists, and placing a dangerous precedent, bombed for 72 days as a great European capital Belgrade (naturally in Kosovo today is the largest U.S.

military base in the world and has been perpetrated the most massive ethnic cleansing in the Balkans: the 360,000 Serbs who were living there are only 60 000). When I hear talk about "human rights" I put, ideally, hand gun. Because it means you are going to attack someone. As was the case in Afghanistan where to force women to get rid of the burqa, to export democracy and oust the Taliban who were at least assured that country six years of peace in many war, the US-NATO occupation has caused, directly the carpet-bombing and indirectly for the reactions of the guerrillas, 60 000 civilian deaths and 40% of the hospitalized are children under the age of 14.

A perfect "humanitarian intervention". The day before yesterday in a Taliban ambush, died on a mountain. Our military commanders the need to stop telling us lies. They claimed that the thirteen armored vehicles, which also traveled Lieutenant Massimo Ranzani, were returning from the village of Adraskan where they had "provided medical care to some patients." Now, for "medical care to some patients" do not you move with thirteen armored vehicles.

Or the situation in Afghanistan is so compromised that even for an operation so simple it takes a massive military protection not only against the Taliban, but the reactions of the population. "And when you have a question you should fear the people but portela" said Cecilia Street, by Emergency in Afghanistan is at home.

Italians were surprised to be hit while performing "humanitarian". In December 2007, when an Italian soldier was killed and three others wounded when they were re-stabilizing a bridge in the valley of Laghman, the chief spokesman for Mullah Omar, Oari Yusaf Ahmadi, described as "young, friendly, courteous," the journalist of the Corriere Andrea Nicastro that targets only the Italians wanted to do good work, "replied curtly:" Italians strike again.

We do not care if they shoot or distribute alms. They are allies of the Americans and then the invaders. If you must go. Before you understand it, the better for them. " In a recent report, Land of the Taliban (September 2010), the British journalist Jonathan Steele, The Guardian, reports that after ten years of occupation all Afghans, and not Taliban, Pashtuns, tragiki, Hazara, rural people and educated people cities, men and women, even professional women have been sacrificed by the most rigid interpretation of Sharia Taliban, they want one thing: that foreigners go away and be able to solve alone, among them, including Afghans, their own issues.

While even the president Berlusconi show some doubts about the Afghan mission, the Ministers Frattini and La Russa continue to repeat like a broken record that "we are linked to our international commitments." It's a lie. The Dutch, unlike ours, have fought well in the area perhaps most pericoloae of Afghanistan, nell'Urozgan, home of Mullah Omar, in Helmand, they left in August 2010 after losing 26 men, including the child of their commander Van Hum, nearly three times more than the Italians in proportion to their actual quota of one thousand.

By 2011 they will leave the Canadians, who also fought in Helmand losing in July 2010, 151 men out of 2800. In 2012 will be the turn of the Poles. Only we must remain faithful to make the dogs of the Americans? , March 3, 2011

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