MCCAIN, OIL COMPANIES AND WESTERN INTERVENTION IN LIBYA
23. Apr, 2011
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- US Sen. John McCain, backdropped with a pre Gadhafi flag, talks during a press conference in Benghazi, Libya Friday, on April 22. McCain, one of the strongest proponents in Congress of the American military intervention in Libya, said Friday that Libyan rebels fighting Moammar Gadhafi’s troops are his heroes. Nasser Nasser/AP
“John McCain a top recipients of oil donor money in the US senate advocates today stronger US intervention; in 2009 he was special guest at Qaddafi’s infamous tent calling, then, for stronger relations with the regime.”
By: Jamal Kanj*
While the populous Arab uprising for the most part was civil in nature, the revolution in Libya took a different turn. The absence of militarized revolution in Tunisia and Egypt helped sustain the movement, eventually leading to the demise of two dictators.
But unlike Egypt and Tunisia, Libya is an oil producer. It ranks number 17 among the oil producing countries, number four in Africa and number 9 in the world’s proven oil reserve. Whilst Western powers interest in Egypt is strategic, in Libya it’s economic.
Following the Libyan crises, oil companies made up for the immediate shortage in the oil market from available capacities in larger oil producing countries such a Saudi Arabia. Notwithstanding, the oil companies advanced a hypothesis of market uncertainty to justify military intervention and propagating fear regarding the sustainability of oil supply. Hence, increasing oil prices to levels have not been seen since 2008. Making oil companies the ones reaping the most financial benefits from the ashes of war.
Meanwhile, creating an environment of insecurity to rationalize the use of Western ground forces to eventually control the new Libya. A plan manifested by the performance of the NATO military raids on Libya: using enough power to keep Qaddafi’s forces at bay, but not a complete defeat. Thus, forcing the opposition to allow limited form of ground intervention, called “Military Advisors” after rejecting similar offers for the last two months.
The same jargon was used in the late 50s when American military advisors were sent to South Vietnam to help against the North, perpetuating that country’s division and leading to a long painful war. In Libya’s case, the geographical positioning was transmuted to East housing the opposition and West for the Qaddafi forces.
It took more than four years for full blown military intervention in Vietnam following the first advisors. How long will it be before the NATO military advisors are metamorphosed to full blown military intervention in Libya? I dare to say much less than four years, for the world’s market cannot tolerate higher oil prices for extended period and oil companies can’t wait that long before tapping on Libya’s oil potentials.
But one can also argue that there are consistent and unambiguous messages from NATO pundits, in both the USA and Europe, rejecting any military intervention with ground forces. Seemingly true, however since when military interventions have become overt public policies? George Bush kept denying the existing of plans to attack Iraq until short days before invading the country.
The question remains however, why? Even though the Libyan leader was tamed by American standards, the people’s revolt left Western’s powers with no option but to ride the wave of change in the Arab world. Case and point, John McCain a top recipients of oil donor money in the US senate advocates today stronger US intervention; in 2009 he was special guest at Qaddafi’s infamous tent calling, then, for stronger relations with the regime.
McCain then and now represented not the interest of his constituency, but that of the oil companies’ donors who bloated his campaign’s funds with cash. Likewise, broader ground force intervention becomes a necessity to maintain a firm leash on the new regime and to ensure oil supply; a good rationalization to justify wider intervention at the heel of the advanced “Military Advisors.”
The destruction of the oil industrial complex and public infrastructure creates new opportunities for oil companies to build new production centers, and compels Libya to increase the level of oil production to pay for the rebuilding efforts. Ostensibly win/win where oil companies finally succeed on tapping Libya’s proven oil reserves, resulting in a first classes return on the Oil Companies’ investment in the US campaign funds.
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*Jamal Kanj writes frequently on Arab World issues and the author of “Children of Catastrophe, Journey from a Palestinian Refugee Camp to America”, Garnet Publishing, UK. Jamal can be reached at: jkanj@yahoo.com
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any of you ever watch ‘The Manchurian Candidate’, not the stupid moronic remakes, but the original version of it?
McCorncobb is the quintessential MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE in every way. Spends a shitload of time in the Hanoi Hilton, after his butt buggery of a bunch of sailors on the U.S.S. Forrestal with his ‘hot start’ fun on the flight deck. Spills tons of beans to the NVA about attack route and check in procedures so that after his bean spilling (albeit, during excrutiating torture NO MAN COULD WITHSTAND) the aviators who flew latter missions (also war crimes like his was the day he got shot down, by the way) took a hell of a pasting (yes, most likely poetic justice, and I concur with that!)
In any case, why does anyone take this old turd with part of Ho Chi Minh’s pitot tube lodged in his cheek?
this guy is stark raving nucking futz!
should be confined to a mental ward somewhere, sedated, chained down, and maybe waterboarded six or ten times a day just to remind him that HE THINKS TORTURE IS GOOD FOR YOU!!!
what an inveterate arse hole J.S. McCorncobb is!!! such a pathetic turd!
go find an old black and white copy of that first version of ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ and then tell me you don’t see him in that role. He fits PERFECTLY!
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I left out his role in the S. and L. debacle, as John Keating’s personal shoeshine boy and personal jet seat warmer there in Phoenix with his Stepford wife and robot, Cynthia. For you youngsters who don’t know what ‘S. and L.’ debacle means, it was back in the 1980′s when one of the first test rounds of hubris and greed of the banksters was unvealed and rolled out by in the pocket sphincter muscles like McCorncobb, and a few other treasonous piles of crappola who helped banks fuck the nation into financial insolvency back then, causing the formation of yet one more Rothschilds scam called the RESOLUTION TRUST CORPORATION (wholly FED controlled) who sold assets at dime on the dollar to wealthy scum who bought these things cheap and then turned around and had them re-assessed at their full values. Another pile of human waste, also from Arizona, was Dennis DeCornCini, who’s insider knowledge helped him grab Central Arizona Project properties at dime on the dollar savings to himself on what, about a 20 million dollar loan from yet another piece of BonerAnno crime family shit, and then quite beyond any resonable ethics, reap a huge fortune off that land when the State acquired it for the CAP project. Look up more scum such as Grant Woodz, the acting Attorney Genital, and Fife SLIMINGTON, the Governator. Arizona has been the spawning place of scum and villainy from the early 1860′s, and it has not stopped. Just look at the Janet NaPOLEitano and the new piece of work Jan Brewster as I call her. It just would be most appropriate that in the grand scheme of things, when EARTH needs a high colonic, it be administered thru the Capitol of the Snakes there in PHONY-ICKs. it just never ends there.
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9/11 Researcher.. I love Your spritiness and correct representation of McCain,
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9/11 researcher Reply:
April 25th, 2011 at 8:31 am
anytime you see a U.S. POLEitician strap on a ‘yarmulke’, you know you’re dealing with a treasonous piece of garbage. that’s the litmus test for genuine TURD-DOM if there ever was one.
selling one’s nation out for Israel is a crime of HIGHEST OF HIGH TREASON, and unfortunately, McCorncobb is not the only asshole in the wholly sold out and Israeli controlled KNESSET (called CONgress/Senate this side of the slime pond) the taxpayers are ignorant enough to pay for here.
Interestingly, Arizona is pretty much the dysfunctional asshole role model of the world. It was the first state to try to overturn the MLK holiday (a sure fire sign of assholiness if there ever was one) and it’s leadership, if you can call Jon Kyller and these other scum ‘leaders’, has been the kind of battery acid suppository up the nation’s colon, for far too many years. Every politico who’s sprung from the Arizona toilet has infected the rest of the country in a way that does irreparable damage to the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. I actually think that Eric ‘waco fixer’ Holder could apply for Arizona citizenship, as a politburo member there, based on his hubris and treason, just like his boss, Mule Tool Mueller. J. Edgar HOMO would have been so proud of them, as would be Ernst Roehm.
but I digress. When I think Arizona, I think dysentery, diahrrea, and intense need for DEPENDS protection from flatulence that is far more than just bad gas.
Arizona as nice as the physical attributes of the state are in some places, is a shithole and breeding ground for scummy vermin like NaPOLEitano and McCorncobb, and Kyle-er. They’re all filth.
and just like all other assholes in the universe, they STINK. I don’t like sounding like an ad-hominem attack on these scum, but they deserve to be called out for the TREASON WHORES THEY ALL ARE. In a real world they’d be tried, convicted, and HANGED for what they’ve done for Israel, to the American Sheeple, on the taxpayer’s dime.
and on a global scale, they’d be tried for WAR CRIMES and CRIMES AGAINST ALL HUMANITY, as well…such are these Arizona jackasses.
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