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Monday, 21 March 2011 10:28 |
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Bad as Gaddafi is, the biggest threat to freedom and democracy in Libya comes from the USA and its western allies, who have launched air raids supposedly in support of the Libyan revolutionary forces. Unlike in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Libyan resistance is a genuine democratic movement – but that does not change for a second the imperialist nature of western intervention. Just as the USA armed the Egyptian dictator Mubarak, the UK and Italy armed Gaddafi. Even while they bomb Libya, their ally Saudi Arabia invades Bahrain to stop the Arab revolution there. Any government put in place by the US, France and the UK will crush Libyan democracy as surely as Gaddafi.
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