The Americans are seen in times of oil
The American ships are positioned at spitting distance from Tripoli, just 50 Kilometres as the crow flies. Officially they have arrived for humanitarian reasons. There are no Indian, Chinese, Iranian ships nor even are there Russian, Korean, Brazilian, Icelandic, or South African ones. Just American ones and a few bits of fleets of minor allies.
When there’s conflict in the world, ready-made assistance that’s immediate and above all armed, arrives from the United States of America. Disinterested and long-term assistance as there was for the war in the Balkans or in Iraq or Afghanistan. They are so comfortable in the countries to which they have exported democracy that they are not leaving any more. They set up bases and the flag as they did in Kosovo and they stay around for decades. They are nice generous people, big lads that are always smiling. In Italy the Yankees gave out gifts of cigarettes and chocolate that we still remember. Certainly they also bombed civilians in the main cities of Italy, from Rome to Milan, but those are incidents along the way that can happen in war. Allies that make mistakes. Our welcome guests (no government has ever denied them permission to stay in our country) in a hundred bases (and sixty nuclear war heads) and offices around Italy, hat have become their aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean.
The Americans really believe in their role as the good giant, as the world’s sheriff, but if the nation in difficulty is the owner of reserves of oil or gas, then they believe that even more. In Darfur or in Tibet, to give an example, where there is no “black gold”, no one has been seen. If friends are visible in times of need, the Americans are seen in times of oil. Just as once upon a time for the “Pavesini” biscuits, you could say that it’s always the moment for the Americans when their interests are at stake. In Libya there’s a bloody dictator with whom the West conducted business until a few weeks ago. Everyone knew who he was, but the smell of money covered any miasma. Now Libya is split in two. It’s not known who will prevail. It’s a civil war, something internal to the country. What’s needed are humanitarian interventions, with UN forces acting as a buffer, welcoming the refugees coming from the war zones. What’s not necessary, and neither is it to be wished for, is the intervention of “Uncle Sam’s” Armed Forces. Whoever were to win, in the end would be the only winner.
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HELLO BEPPE GRILLO,
A VERY NICE,COMPREHENSIVE ARTICLE AND BEHIND-THE-CURTAIN DECEPTIVE GAME THAT YOU HAVE CLEARLY EXPOSED.HOWEVER,DON'T YOU THINK IN THE MAP ABOVE YOU SHOULD HAVE STUCK AN AMERICAN FLAG IN MULLAH'S COUNTRY ALSO !!!!!
Posted by: DESBILLY | March 12, 2011 10:24 AM
Bravo Beppe, finally you just went to the right point behind whats happening in lybia. Off course many "correct" americans/gringos would say that in in the name of DEMOCRACY whatever is possible(look what the CIA have done insouthamerica). a nice example: U.S.A has always denied any legal existens and so approve any accusations from the securitiy council, but push them to judge gaddafi's government as fast as possible and to find whatever possible ways to INVADE lybia!
how come? how come the USA never asked for more information about Rafeed al-Janabi about iraq and believed all the lies he fabricated(pubblied in the guardian some wekks ago), it smells again like iraq WHERE TODAY ACCEPTED EVEN BY THE U.N. there were no weapons of mass distruction but who cares the empire wanted its cake.. again a nice complot for democracy or for Oil?
Posted by: alexander pena reyes | March 9, 2011 05:38 PM
For the record: Italian minister of economic development, Romani, accused an Italian journalist of not knowing anything because he couldn't name the French jet fighters used by Gaddafi. Then the minister went on to say Italian arms exports to Lybia are negligible, when in fact Italy is one of the major exporters of arms to Lybia. Then Mr. Romani characterized Al Jazeera news reports as biased and mere propaganda for Muslims. Yet, Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, said Al Jazeera covered events in North Africa and the Middle East far better than American television. Oh those ministers!
Posted by: Louis Pacella | March 6, 2011 02:11 AM
The first thing Americans did when they arrived in Baghdad was to secure the Oil Ministry leaving the rest of the city and museums for looters. Later, a team of oil executives were brought in to organize national oil into private oil. This didn't go well with many Iraqis, especially with Iraqi oil engineers. They, in fact, stopped privatization while the Sunni and Iraqi nationalists organized the insurgency. But that war (by far not over) is all about democracy.
Posted by: Louis Pacella | March 5, 2011 08:26 PM
The first thing Americans did when they arrived in Baghdad was to secure the Oil Ministry leaving the rest of the city and museums for looters. Later, a team of oil executives were brought in to organize national oil into private oil. This didn't go well with many Iraqis, especially with Iraqi oil engineers. They, in fact, stopped privatization while the Sunni and Iraqi nationalists organized the insurgency. But that war (by far not over) is all about democracy.
Posted by: Louis Pacella | March 5, 2011 08:21 PM