How NATO Kills Africans in the Club Med
Humanitarian imperialism as applied to what the Pentagon loves to define as MENA
(Middle East-Northern Africa) has led, according to Amnesty International, "to
the largest refugee disaster since the Second World War."
By Pepe Escobar
April 23, 2015 "Information
Clearing House" - "Sputnik"
- You all remember that NATO/AFRICOM coalition of the willing, "led" by
King Sarko the First, then President of France, with US President Barack Obama
"leading from behind" and a former Secretary of State, now presidential
candidate with a campaign chest of $2.5 billion, coining a gloating "We came, we
saw, he died".
Well, this fabulous collection of humanitarian imperialists is still on the
loose, now killing — by proxy — across the waters of the Mediterranean, aka Club
Med, aka Mare Nostrum, after they destroyed a viable state — Libya, a secular
Arab republic — under the pretext of preventing a "genocide".
Asked about it today, as he recently pontificated in relation to the Armenian
genocide, that pathetic excuse for UN Secretary-General, Ban-Ki Moon, would say
the potential massacre in Libya might — and the operative word is "might" — not
even qualify as an "atrocity crime."
The six-month humanitarian bombing of Libya engineered to prevent a highly
hypothetical "atrocity crime" ended up "liberating" at least 10 times more
people from their lives than the previous skirmishes between Col. Gaddafi's
troops and weaponized "rebels", most of them hardcore Islamist militias, now
free to wreak jihadi havoc from eastern Libya to northern Syria.
Humanitarian imperialism practitioners duly created a "liberated" wasteland —
which they called "victory" — trespassed by weaponized militias; installed a
pervasive chaos trespassing a great deal of the Maghreb and Western Africa; and
unleashed a massive humanitarian crisis.
Stranded in MENA
Humanitarian imperialism as applied to what the Pentagon loves to define as MENA
(Middle East-Northern Africa) — from Libya to Iraq, Syria and now Yemen, as well
as sub-proxy wars in Mali, Somalia and Sudan — has led, according to Amnesty
International, "to the largest refugee disaster since the Second World War."
Amnesty estimates that no less than 57 million people have been turned into
refugees by 2014.
A crucial subplot is that according to the International Organization on
Migration (IOM), the number of refugees dying as they tried to reach Fortress
Europe rose by more than 500 percent between 2011 and 2014.
This means humanitarian imperialism, as applied by the Pentagon/NATO/AFRICOM,
handed the waters of the Club Med to the real winners: a vast human trafficking
racket that includes smugglers, corrupt police and even "terra-rists".
Across Europe, only Italy — to its credit — is really outraged, and willing to
accept at least a fraction, a few really, of the wretched African boat people.
After all, the privileged exit point is "liberated" Libya and the privileged
entry point is Italy's Sicily. France, Germany, the UK and Sweden follow Italy
with much more modest attempts.
This aphasiac EU/NATO wall of silence is due to the fact that Europe now is
mostly about anti-immigration political parties running amok. After all would-be
immigrants are perfect scapegoats. As fearful "nationalists" define them, they
flatten wages; they live off welfare; they are mostly criminals; they reproduce
like rabbits; they destroy the "national identity; and of course there are so
many "terra-rists" among them who want to submit Europe to the chador and Sharia
law.
This fearful, austerity-ravaged EU subjugated by NATO's military diktats cannot
possibly muster the will to build a common, decent policy to confront the
tragedy of a Club Med putrified by a tsunami of African bodies. A great deal of
the EU in fact suspended Operation Mare Nostrum — opting to control/police the
borders of Fortress Europe instead of acting on humanitarian principles.
Call the drone cavalry
A modest proposal would involve bombing smuggling boats in their hideaways
before they are filled up with their tragic human cargo; under UN protection,
establish in the "liberated" Libyan coastline humanitarian stations able to
process those eligible for political asylum in the EU; facilitate their air or
naval travel to the nations ready to receive them; or — using American
methodology — drone the "enemy" to smithereens, as in the smugglers and their
financiers. After all US drones are expert in the matter, operating under
Obama's infamous "kill list" and totally oblivious to international law.
That, though, will never happen. As Nick Turse demonstrates in a new,
path-breaking book, Libya was merely AFRICOM's first war (then transferred to
NATO, as I examined here); the Pentagon has much nastier plans in its evolving
pivoting to Africa.
Meanwhile, those fabulously wealthy oil and gas rackets in the Persian Gulf —
the same ones buying every ostentatious sign of luxury between Paris and London
— are busy "creating" the bulk of the largest refugee crisis since World War II:
in Syria, a privileged theatre of their proxy war against Iran.
And the House of Saud oil hacienda — with the Empire of Chaos "leading from
behind" but providing the bombs, the fighter jets, the intel, and the
escalation, via nine US warships dispatched to Yemeni waters — is also busy
prosecuting its bombastic "Decisive Storm" over the poorest Arab nation, setting
the scene for yet another chapter of the rolling refugee crisis.
NATO remains busy training Kiev's goons; demonizing Russia generates much more
PR than dealing with Africans.
In Afghanistan, the Taliban have already announced their new spring offensive
starts this Friday; NATO, whose collective behind was royally spanked by a few
thousand Taliban with fake Kalashnikovs, won't be even "leading from behind".
And at the bottom of the Mare Nostrum lies, in full putrefied regalia, the
EU/NATO's civilized corpse.
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