Recently the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, urged Africans to ‘isolate’ Gaddafi as if she were a schoolmistress, and the Africans children, under her control and discipline. Then we have the ludicrous display of pomposity and hegemonic imperialism from the so-called International Criminal Court [ICC] which exclusively targets Africans issuing an ‘arrest warrant’ for the legitimate leader of a legitimate country for ‘crimes against humanity.’ Surely there must be more to this than meets the eye.
Bashar el Assad shoots down his own people, cordons off population centres and massacres civilians in the full glare of the world’s press and neither Clinton nor Obama say anything beyond meaningless platitudes. The Yemeni autocrat brings his nation to the edge of a civil war causing the death of hundreds but neither the US nor the self-appointed guardians of ‘world peace and order’ the so-called ‘international community,’ say anything.
The ruler of Bahrain summons Saudi mercenaries to crush his Shia majority, sentencing protesters to life imprisonment and the usually garrulous world press [when it comes to Gaddafi] remains mute as a log.
The government of Libya is attacked by a band of instantly-armed thugs and defends itself as it has the right to, and immediately, as if reading from a pre-planned script, Britain and France call for a no-fly zone. The UN heads get together to cobble up a UN resolution which presents them with the wiggle-room to reverse-engineer the resolution to suit whatever circumstance arise. Egged on by Hillary Clinton, the US steps into another military mess to spend billions of taxpayer dollars while its citizens face rising employment and economic uncertainty.
Why the relentless targeting of Libya, Gaddafi in particular? The stakes are extremely high and the ‘coalition of the ruthless’ are determined to spin everything to convince the undiscerning public that ‘Gaddhafi must go’ else the world would end. Apart from the obvious question of who gives them the right to dictate who rules their country, what is in it for them?
The economies of France and Britain threatened by the uncertainties of the European economic pace in Greece, Portugal, Ireland and bailouts yet to come, need distraction to keep social discontent dormant. Greece has already burst that bubble with social protest rising. Encouraged by Gaddafi who has never shirked his pan-African responsibilities, Africans have been slowly easing the heel of Western economic pressure off their necks.
China has made inroads into the African political psyche and economy and this threatens the West. Their centuries old-stranglehold on the minds and resources of Africa is severely undermined.
Gaddafi’s influence and investment has weaned Africa away from dependence on European satellites for the continental communications, saving the Continent more than a billion dollars annually. Libyan proposals for an African Monetary Fund flew in the face of Western economic planners as did the attempts to set up a single African currency which would have dealt a death blow to the CFA through which France has manipulated and controlled its West African neo-colonies.
Then, of course there is Gaddafi’s call for a million-man African army. This is the stuff of nightmares for the West, since ideas, once rooted, are almost impossible to uproot. So Gaddafi has to ‘go.’ Africa becomes a clear and present danger and no one personifies this more than Muammar Gaddafi, the man Nelson Mandela defied the United Nations sanctions to visit and thank for his support during the anti-apartheid struggle. Long demonized by the West, Gaddafi has gone too far in their eyes.
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