{"id":1484,"date":"2011-08-03T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnito.nl\/blog\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2016-06-13T22:34:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T22:34:22","slug":"i-was-wrong-about-libya-and-i-apologize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnito.nl\/blog\/2011\/08\/03\/i-was-wrong-about-libya-and-i-apologize\/","title":{"rendered":">I was wrong about Libya and I apologize"},"content":{"rendered":"

>\"\"<\/a>It looks to me like Michael Hayden<\/a>’s (ex-CIA, NSA under Bush jr.) wish for a digital Blackwater<\/a> has already come true<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ve seen a lot of those<\/a> on twitter during the first weeks of the attack on Libya, all hailing NATO, neocon warhawks and the “rebels”, including the rebels that fought for groups we used to call “Al Qaeda<\/a>“,during earlier occasions <\/a>when<\/span> it suited our imperialist agenda. <\/span><\/p>\n

The uprising in Libya has nothing to do<\/a> with the revolutions in Egypt or Tunisia. It’s a counter-revolution, threatening to catapult the nation back into the middleages<\/a> .Sure, Gaddafi is a dictator, armed <\/a>by some of the same countries that now attack him, but whoever thinks that Libya will be better off with a ultraconservative sharia-driven regime<\/a>,while kissing the empire<\/a>’s ass, is just not paying attention<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What we see in Libya is what’s been described in the Power Of Nightmares. Neocons<\/a> and radical Islamists<\/a> fight together for a common cause.<\/p>\n

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Regarding my past as a well-informed progressive peace-activist, I should, and could have known<\/a> there was an imperialist agenda<\/a> behind it. Again<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>I have nothing left to say about this subject, except that I owe the Libyan people an apology for naievely supporting that so-called no-flyzone<\/a> that opened the gates of hell<\/a> for them.<\/span><\/span>
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Sorry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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