On Mar 21, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Dennis Redmond wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com>
> wrote:
>
> Revolutionaries, if "realistic" in the slightest degree, would have
> been
>> raising an army of Egyptian volunteers (former conscripts, thus
>> well-trained) to fight Khadafi, and demanding that it be fully
>> supported by
>> Egyptian military resources.
>>
>
> No.
>
> This is Libya's battle. They have to fight it -- and they will. They
> have to
> win it -- and they will. All the UN forces are doing is accelerating
> the end
> of an awful dictatorship.
Wrong.
This is a revolution, and revolutions know no boundaries. Especially not colonial-imposed ones. "Libya" is an imperialist creation, imposed by Italian imperialism and reimposed, against the will of the people (especially the Cyrenaicans) by the Anglo-American imperialists. Egypt and Cyrenaica never had a boundary before then. Egypt was ruled by "Libyan" Egyptians (the "22nd Dynasty") for more than a century. The "UN forces" are nothing nothing nothing but the French-English- American-Italian colonialists. They wear that "UN" label only because Medvedev was bribed/cajoled/ suborned into defying Putin's orders and abstaining in the SC vote. The "UN forces" only aims are retaining corporate control over the oilfields and preventing development of the popular democratic revolution, whether or not that involves replacing Qaddafi by a more respectable form of capitalist dictatorship.
This is not "Libya's" battle--it is the Arab democratic revolution's battle.
Shane Mage "Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64