US drone kills Gaddafi
“Libyan rebels did not kill Gaddafi. They executed him, dazed and hapless – medieval style.
A hellfire missile fired by a US drone hovering some five miles above in the skies of Libya made the kill – now, that’s how it’s done in the 21st century – clinically precise and from far away.
Much as Obama and Hillary Clinton were trying to defer the honor of deposing Gaddafi to their NATO allies, Britain and France – and “the armed people of Libya fighting oppression” – in the end Uncle Sam had to step in and wave his big stick.
Somebody somewhere at the White House or the Pentagon or at Langley Virginia made up his mind: enough is enough, “letting the people of Libya decide their own future” is going nowhere. Gaddafi enjoys too much support and there’s too great a risk of prolonged civil war – and, most importantly, as long as Gaddafi lives the Libyan oil supply won’t be safe.
KABOOM! Hellfire hits the ground and Libya starts a new chapter of its history.
Let’s leave aside the highly questionable moral and legal issues -like what UN mandate authorized the aerial killing of a sovereign foreign leader, deposed or otherwise?
Let’s talk about something that affects everybody – money.
Here’s one big and unquestionable winner in the whole Libya debacle…The World’s United Military Industrial Complex”
Here’s one big and unquestionable winner in the whole Libya debacle…The World’s United Military Industrial Complex”
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