NATO warplanes deliberately shot missiles into a home in a residential neighborhood in Libya in an attempt to murder Moammar Gadhafi. There was no other military value to the strike.
They succeeded instead in murdering his son, 29-year-old Saif al-Arab Gadhafi, and three of Gadhafi's grandchildren.
They have yet to either confirm or deny the strike. Why?
I do not support Gadhafi because he is a murderer and abuser of human rights.
But neither do I support NATO in Libya because it has murdered and abused human rights there as well.
And I question NATO's ultimate motivation for being there.
That leaves the people of Libya.
I support peace and prosperity for the people of Libya.
I support the right of the Libyan people to determine their own destiny and to expect more hope, more opportunity, and the chance for a better life, than they have had in decades.
They wont find it with Gadhafi.
Nor will they find it with the "West" who uses military might as a form of unimaginative 'diplomacy' and who cares more for Libya's oil and strategic importance than they do the people of Libya or even apparently basic human rights.
They succeeded instead in murdering his son, 29-year-old Saif al-Arab Gadhafi, and three of Gadhafi's grandchildren.
They have yet to either confirm or deny the strike. Why?
I do not support Gadhafi because he is a murderer and abuser of human rights.
But neither do I support NATO in Libya because it has murdered and abused human rights there as well.
And I question NATO's ultimate motivation for being there.
That leaves the people of Libya.
I support peace and prosperity for the people of Libya.
I support the right of the Libyan people to determine their own destiny and to expect more hope, more opportunity, and the chance for a better life, than they have had in decades.
They wont find it with Gadhafi.
Nor will they find it with the "West" who uses military might as a form of unimaginative 'diplomacy' and who cares more for Libya's oil and strategic importance than they do the people of Libya or even apparently basic human rights.
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